FESTIVAL/TOKYO

Frenetic state-of-the-nation musical from the Kansai fringe scene stars

Formed by two brothers, Takashi and Kanji Masuyama in 2005, KODOMOKYOJIN is an Osaka-based theatre company that harnesses both the genre of musical theatre with live instruments and also straight plays, excavating the "narratives" that are buried in the world. It went on its first European tour in 2007 and now stages sharply satiric work bristling with linguistic innovation and dynamic, entertaining direction. This is the fourth in its series of musicals that it has been creating since 2012. Themed around money and the dead in hell, it portrays how the underworld and the land of the living are not so different after all!