Capitalizing on the Pull of Experimental Japanese Theatre

The Theatre Times: Shuntaro Matsubara’s first contact with live theatre was in 2014, when he saw a production of German dramatist Bertolt Brecht’s 1930 play Fatzer (aka Downfall of the Egotist Johann Fatzer) at the Kyoto studio of renowned director Motoi Miura, and his avant-garde company Chiten Only 26 years old at the time, and a little-known author of several novels, Matsubara was impressed enough to join a drama circle run by Miura. Before long, the pair began to develop a creative partnership together.