Cast

Ale Utsman
Ari Sumitro
Bangkit Sanjaya
Holifah Wira
Mako Mitsuhashi
Shoichi Ayada
Sir Ilham Jambak
Takashi Okito
Yova Tri Wahyuni
Yuko Kawabuchi

Production Staff / Crew

• Interpreter
  Agung Iswara
• Dramaturg and Researcher
  Rosida Erowati
• Researcher
  Yusuke Hasegawa
• Stage Designer
  Riky Oet
• Multimedia / Lighting Designer
  Aji Sangiaji
• Lighting Designer
  Tsuruyo Noritake
• Music Composer and Performer
  Muhammad Ramdhani
• Sound Designer
  Masashi Wada
• Videographer and Photographer
  Dio Ihkamuddin
• Costume Designer
  Hilmia Murtaqia Sama
• Head of Production
  Wulan Pusposari
• Producer
  Yasuhito Yano
• Production Assistant
  Azizah Zubaer
• Front of House Representatives
  Tomomi Ueno
  Mai Kasuga
  Nanami Abe
• With support from
  Table of Philosophy Association
• Production Planning by
  Theatre Company shelf and Lab Teater Ciputat
• Supported by:
  Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture Arts Council Tokyo
  The Saison Foundation
  The Indian Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology (in as part of the program “Dana Indonesiana”)

Project Overview - Crossing Text: Between Mystery and Mystical

Crossing Text: Between Mystery and Mystical Is a long-term international co-production project led by Yasuhito Yano, Head and Director of Theatre Company shelf and Bambang Prihadi, Head and Director of Lab Teatre Ciputat, a Jakarta-based theatre company. In the first stage of the project, the two theatre companies exchanged one literary text from each country (namely Sotoba Komachi by Yukio Mishima and Rintrik by Danarto) for each company to create a stage production of the respective exchanged text. The goal of this initial stage of the project was to eventually weave together a brand-new co-production based on their experiences of producing each production in the first stage, with the use of the methodology called “CROSSING TEXT”. The purpose of this endeavour is not only to simply produce a new work, but also to document, both in forms of writing and visual assets, the results of this international collaboration as well as individual experiences of participants gained through the process of producing the new work, and share them widely with the public in order to showcase new ways of working on international co-productions and the values and meanings of international co-productions, and further, to suggest new ways of co-existing in this evolving international and multicultural society.

The Japan Foundation Asia Center ｜Grant & Fellowship Program

Arts Council Tokyo｜Fiscal Year 2020 Creation Grant [Long-Term Grants]

About The Smiling Old Women

In this project, “Mystery” in the project title is defined as “a mystery; what humans cannot comprehend, things that are above humans’ comprehension”, and “Mystical” in the title is defined as “something closer to a religion; something that’s made up of things that humans think about and believe in”. Rintrik by Danarto and Sotoba Komachi by Yukio Mishima both have an old woman in their stories (namely Rintrik in Rintrik and Komachi in Sotoba Komachi). With that in mind, we have chosen some themes of this project, namely the mystery, holiness, and religiousness (in relation to the act of believing) of these old women.
In the creative process, through a series of creative discussions conducted both remotely and in person, we discussed what it means to be a woman in society, what it means to age (and its values), and when humans smile (“specifically, for example, if Rintrik and Komachi were to smile, what would be the occasion/trigger of it?”), in order to produce the new work.
This production is a more deepened rendition of the first work-in-progress production we presented as a test in December 2022, and it seeks more “actual” and stronger expressions. It is the final “work-in-progress” presentation/production before it’s brought to Jakarta in December 2023 for the world premier of the finished production.

Date

Tuesday, June 27, 2023 at 7p.m.

Show Runtime

Approx. one hour

Venue

Morishita Studio (C Studio)
3-5-6 Morishita, Koto-ku, Tokyo
https://www.saison.or.jp/studio#p06

Access

A 5-minute walk from Exit A6 of Morishita Station - accessible by Toei Shinjuku Line or Toei Oedo Line
A 10-minute walk from Exit A2 from Seicho Shirakawa Station - accessible by Tokyo Metro Hanzomon Line or Toei Oedo Line