Suguru Yamamoto

Suguru Yamamoto

Born in 1987 in Yamanashi prefecture. In 2007, while studying at J.F. Oberlin University, he started the theater collective Hanchu-Yuei, serving as its playwright and stage director. Yamamoto released the play Youjo X (Girl X). Set in Tokyo in 2013, the play describes the contemporary city’s tense atmosphere and offers a blessing for those who live in it. This work has brought acclaim for its unique style using projected words that the actors become entangled with as symbolic representation of the generation that communicates through the written words and images of their cell phones or smartphones. Since then, he has continued to introduce works that reflect the accelerating rate of change in the ethical viewpoints of today’s “information society.” Yamamoto’s participation in the Tokyo Performing Arts Market (TPAM) of 2014 has led to overseas performances and international collaborative creation projects in nine countries in Asia and North America. In May of 2020, he has also begun free online distribution of his past works and online creation of new works under the project title of “Mukougawa no Engeki” (Theater on the Other Side).

Hanchu-Yuei
https://www.hanchuyuei2017.com/