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Performances fill theatres, parks and streets of Shizuoka, Japan’s number one tea producing area near Mt. Fuji! 

Shizuoka Performing Arts Center (SPAC) will hold its annual World Theatre Festival Shizuoka 2024 from April 27 to May 6, coinciding as usual with the national Golden Week holiday. In line with its slogan of “Fujinokuni (The Mt. Fuji region) and the world are connected through the performing arts,” SPAC will introduce a wide range of cutting-edge theatre programs from Japan and abroad at venues in Shizuoka City and the surrounding, wonderfully scenic area under the artistic direction of Satoshi Miyagi, one of the world famous theatre directors.

In addition, this festival also features Open-air Performing Arts Festival, STRANGE SEED SHIZUOKA which is to be held from May 4 to 6, comprising a wide range of fringe arts events being held around the city in cooperation with Shizuoka City’s major Town Becomes Theatre Project.

Performances fill theatres, parks and streets of Shizuoka, Japan’s number one tea producing area near Mt. Fuji!

Website:
https://festival-shizuoka.jp/en/
*More information release date = Feb. 20th 2024

2024 Programs:
▼at Shizuoka Arts Theatre
"The Seagull" [Theatre / Berlin, Germany]
Text by Anton Chekhov / Director: Thomas Ostermeier

▼at Shizuoka Performing Arts Park
"Friends" [Theatre / Tottori&Shizuoka, Japan]
Text by Kobo Abe / Director: Makoto Nakashima

"The Ballad of Narayama" [Theatre / Toyama, Japan]
Text by Shichiro Fukazawa / Director: Misaki Setoyama

▼at GRANSHIP (Shizuoka Convention&Arts Center)
"Mami Watta" [Dance / France・Cameroun]
Directed and Performed by Merlin Nyakam

▼at Sumpu Castle Park
"The White Fox" [Theatre / Shizuoka, Japan]
Text by Tenshin Okakura / Director: Satoshi Miyagi(SPAC)

 

Contact:

koho@spac.or.jp

 

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Photos (From the left):
1. Logo / World Theatre Festival Shizuoka
2. Sumpu Castle Park (photo by Masami Hioki)
3. "The Seagull" stage photo / Production: Schaubühne, Berlin
4. Shizuoka Performing Arts Park (photo by Y.Inokuma)
5. STRANGE SEED in Sumpu Castle Park
6. More Activity during the festival: Tea-picking Event in Shizuoka Performing Arts Park
7. More Activity during the festival: The Festival Garden in the Sumpujo Park