Sorami Date
Sorami Date
Born in Kanagawa Prefecture in 1984, Date is playwright and director. After university, where she was active in the theater club, and then a year of traveling the world, Date took an ordinary company job. She quit her job after a year and a half and in 2009 she joined the directing department of Oriza Hirata’s Seinendan theater company while starting her own theater unit “Gareki no Taiko” at the same time. She proposes a type of theater that brings the real emotions, anxieties and loneliness of ordinary people to the extraordinary and unreal space of the theater stage in a way makes it into a “society” and brings to the audience a sense of being alive. Date’s representative works include Tomarazu no Kuni (A land where nothing stops), Koko ni Sen wo Hiku (Draw a line here), Kono Heya de Watashi wa Are wo Shite (In this room I do that) and Inai Inai (Not here, not here). This play is one of the Seinendan International Theater Exchange Project and was performed in the “Japan – France Young Directors Series” which brings together the rising French director Yan Allegret and five young directors from Seinendan.
