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BIRD Theatre Company & Theater Breaking Through Barriers “Ctrl L / A Difference of Beauty”

This work was produced for Japan Foundation’s International Creations in Performing Arts 2022.
https://www.jpf.go.jp/e/project/culture/perform/creation/2022/index.html

JIYU Gekijo-Freedom Theatre from Japan, which BIRD Theatre Company produces, and Theater Breaking Through Barriers (TBTB) from the US are organizations that continue activities in attempts to reform society’s perception of disability. They have so far worked together to create theater productions, and even during the COVID-19 pandemic carried out creative activities through online exchange.
This performance is a re-composed form of the two theatrical works Ctrl L and A Difference of Beauty with the newly added Epilogue. Ctrl L, where great chaos ensues in the rehearsal room of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, is a stage version of a work presented online. A Difference of Beauty is a newly written original monologue play: it was born out of the writer’s interviews with each performer, with their murmurs folding together and becoming a swell of hope. And then, in the Epilogue, what is the relationship between humans…?
First performed at “BIRD Theatre Festival TOTTORI 15” in September 2022, it expresses the diverse ways of living and the values of people with and without disabilities, as well as the inner beauty of human beings across borders and disabilities.

Click here for a link to the video of behind the scenes (YouTube)
BIRD Theatre Company & Theater Breaking Through Barriers “Breaking Barriers Through Theatre: To Make the World More Vibrant”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKz_neu6KtM

Organized by: BIRD Theatre Company TOTTORI
Co-organized by: The Japan Foundation (JF) (https://www.jpf.go.jp/e/)
Co-produced by: BIRD Theatre Company TOTTORI, The Japan Foundation

＜Performance Information＞
“Ctrl L”
Written by: Jeff TABNICK
Directed by: Nicholas VISELLI, NAKASHIMA Makoto
Performed by: (from JIYU Gekijo-Freedom Theatre) MIYOSHI Mahirou, SHIMADA Hikaru; (from TBTB) Nicholas VISELLI, Ann Marie MORELLI; (from BIRD Theatre Company) SAITO Yoriaki

“A Difference of Beauty”
Written by: Tatiana RIVERA
Directed by: Nicholas VISELLI, NAKASHIMA Makoto
Performed by: (from JIYU Gekijo-Freedom Theatre) ITANI Yuuta, ISHII Yuumi, MIYOSHI Mahirou, SHIMADA Hikaru; (from TBTB) Ann Marie MORELLI, Bree KLAUSER, Scott BARTON, Stephen DRABICKI

Filmed at the BIRD Theatre on September 25, 2022
Video produced by: The Japan Foundation; Bird Theatre Company TOTTORI

Edited by: HATTORI Katsuyuki

＜Online subtitles＞
French subtitles translation: Steve CORBEIL
Korean subtitles translation: Center For Interpreting & Translation, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
Spanish subtitles translation: Victor WEINSTOCK

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