What is a ‘story’? A portrait of our times by an up-and-coming writer.

Leading fringe writer Shu Matsui featured in the spring Festival/Tokyo program, where he directed contemporary German dramatist Marius von Mayenburg’s “Fireface”, which, while faithful to the original, expressed a very Japanese sensibility. Now he is working with his theatre company Sample to present the premiere of a new work.
Matsui’s plays cross over the boundaries between reality and fiction. His new work will be on the theme of creating “a narrative as a magnet”. What is the ‘real’ that contemporary writers and directors can see when they distinguish between ‘people’ and ‘story’? Matsui’s 2008 play “Portrait of a Family” was nominated for the Kishida Kunio Drama Award and he gathers his top actors together again for this must-see play.

Synopsis

Two people cannot occupy that place.
So the boy left the house.

The inspiration was sudden:
The girl came to the city looking for fun.
From the cradle to the grave, from the grave to the cradle.
We measure out our lives with coffee spoons.
A mouse carcass, morning light, the sound of the AC, someone’s blinking, the feeling of gum, memories of your grandma and so on…
The problem is not what is correct or incorrect.
Freshness is reliable.

In short, a story of an encounter.