Moegi Nogi
Moegi Nogi
Born in 1977 in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Nogi was among the first class to graduated from the newly established playwriting class of the Theater Course of Nihon University College of Art. Her interest in playwriting was aroused by a movie she saw in her second year of middle school. In high school she wrote plays and directed for her school’s drama club and continued to study theater and playwriting at Nihon University. In 1998 she formed the theater unit “Paradox Constant” and performed her play Kami wa Saikoro wo Furanai (God doesn’t play dice). With the premiere of Tokyo Saiban in 2007 the unit formally became a theater company. Taking the framework of historical facts and incidents, Nogi writes vibrant conversational theater works with bold imagination. She is known for her plays with highly intense dialog that springs strong human relationships. Among her representative works are Kaijin 21 Menso (The Monster with 21 Faces, 2006) about the perpetrators of the Glico Morinaga case; Intellectual Masturbation (2009) about the High Treason Incident; Showa Restoration about the night of the failed February 26 coup attempt of 1936; and The Diplomats , written for the Seinen-za company and depicting events occurring from prior to the Pacific War up until the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal from the perspective of the diplomats who would then be put on trail as war criminals.
