Yohei Hosokawa

Yohei Hosokawa

Born in Aomori Prefecture in 1978, Hosokawa is a playwright, director and actor. At Waseda University he was a member of the Waseda drama club, after which he joined in the forming of the theater company Suiseiongaku and wrote and directed all of its plays until its dissolution in 2006. Also, from 2002 to 2004 he performed as an actor for the company Neko-nya. In 2009, Hosokawa formed the private unit Horobite, and the following year presented its maiden production Iki wo Nonde. Among his noted works are Koen made ato sukoshi (literally: The Park Is Just a Little Farther) (2019) that takes as its motif Becket’s Waiting for Godot and tells a story of people who are waiting for something outside the entrance to a park; Border (2020), a story about a borderline that suddenly appears in the Mochida family home; and this play Control (2021) about people who control and are controlled by a game controller is able to control people’s actions.

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