The eldest of three sisters has an intellectual disability. Even as her younger sisters get married, leave home, and move on to the next stage of their lives, it is doubtful whether she will ever be able to stand on her own two feet. Then a man appears who wants to marry her…
“I was a kyodaiji (person with disabled sibling), having an older brother who was intellectually challenged,” says writer/director Ito Tsuyoshi. Ito is an actor with the Seinendan theater company and leader of the theater group Yashago. Having depicted people with disabilities and their families in other works, Ito turned his attention in this work to his own circumstances and focused for the first time on such kyodaiji. Five years since its first performance in 2017, it was revived by the Tokyo Metropolitan Theater in its Geigeki Eyes series of performances with young theater companies.
The play deals head on with the lives of disabled children and their kyodaiji siblings in all their joy and occasional loneliness in the form of the three sisters, who must continue to live as a family. This is an eye-opening work portraying these women and those around them with a cool and gentle touch.

2022
Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre Theatre East

Presented by: The Japan Foundation (JF) (https://www.jpf.go.jp/e/)
In cooperation with EPAD (https://epad.terrada.co.jp/)

＜Performance Credits＞
Written and Directed by ITO Tsuyoshi
Performers : TOYOTA Kanako, TOMIYAMA Ayumi, MIDORIKAWA Fumie, EBINE Osamu, SHIMIZU Midori, SATO Shigeru, TSUJI Kyohei, OKANO Yasuhiro, AKABANE Chikuko, INOUE Minami, FUJIO Kantaro, FUJITANI Miki
Lighting Design by ITO Hiroyuki
Sound Design by SENDA Yuta
Sound Programmer : AKITA Yuji
Scenic Design by TANI Kanako
Props and Costume Design by ISHIHARA Tomoka
Promotional Art by FURUTA Yosuke
Illustration for flyer : AKABANE Chikuko
Video Documentation and Editing : MIYAZAKI Yosuke
Associate Producer : KAWANO Haruka
Associate Producer Assistant : MASAGO Mai
Stage Managers : NAKANISHI Takao, TORISU Mariko
Organized by yashago

＜Subtitling Credits＞
Multilingual subtitling：
Supported by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Goverment of Japan through the Japan Arts Council

Chinese Translation (Simplified): Zhenzhen WU
Chinese Translation (Traditional): SWSG
English Translation: YAMAGATA Mirei
French Translation: Satoko Fujimoto
Spanish Translation: Karla FUJI

＜Promotional Text＞
KAWANO Momoko

End date of distribution: 25/1/2027