Artist Interview アーティストインタビュー
日常から沸き出す妄想の世界
劇作家、佃典彦
dance
A world of the imagination overflowing from the everyday- Playwright Norihiko Tsukuda
Norihiko Tsukuda (B-kyu Yugekitai)
Norihiko Tsukuda won the commemorative 50th Kishida Kunio Drama Award for his play
Nukegara
. It was the first Kishida Award for a Nagoya-based playwright since Sou Kitamura in 1984. Despite being a regional city, Nagoya was a place where small-theater productions that had won recognition in Tokyo would often tour in the 1980s, and Tsukuda is one who came of age with exposure to the plays of the first and second waves of the small-theater drama movement. His award- winning play was acclaimed for the use of an exceptional idea of having the protagonist’s elderly father make successive sheddings of his skin, at which he would grow ten years younger with each shedding until a collection of shed skins in their 60s, 50s 40s and 30s had made appearances. As a playwright, Tsukuda has the ability to bring forth unexpected ideas that seem to open frightening cracks in the everyday, while as a director he is skillful at bringing out the individuality of his actors, but we find the man himself to be completely natural in bearing, even though his mind is full of the seeds of creative fiction.
(Interview, editing: Jun Kobori/Cooperation: Katsumi Mochizuki. An interview recorded at the B-kyu Yugekitai studio in Nagoya, Aichi Pref., May 10, 2006)