Yukio Shiba
Yukio Shiba
Born in Aichi Pref. in 1982. Shiba is a member of the directing department of the Seinendan theater company. He won the 2nd Sendai Theater Town Playwriting Award for Dodomino , a play written in 2004 while Shiba was a student in the Nihon University’s College of Art. In October 2009 he formed the company “Mamagoto” as an internal “Seinendan Link” company under the Seinendan umbrella. His works for this company are characterized by subtleties of the seemingly unexceptional happenings of everyday life expressed in carefully selected words and then brought to stage with concepts from non-theatrical sources, such as the employment of loops and samplings. Representative works such as Ayumi (Walking), a play in which the actors walk continuously throughout the performance and Hanpuku katsu Renzoku (Repetition and Continuation) in which a mechanism of looped monodrama is employed to portray a large family, are examples of the new perspectives and methods he uses to depict people’s everyday lives. Shiba and his company are also active in regions throughout Japan as exemplified by recent performances and workshops in Aichi Pref., a playwriting seminar in Kani City, Gifu Pref. and directing at the Iwaki Sogo High School in Fukushima Pref., etc. The play Wagahoshi (Our Planet) won the 54th Kishida Kunio Drama Award.
