Manhattan Old Man 2025
Sun, Jan 05
|Kanda Rakudoan
An elderly man who lived a poor and lonely life, without wealth or fortune, becomes a heavenly old man who blesses Manhattan. This is a celebratory Noh play befitting the New Year. ■Original story, screenplay, and starring: Makiko Sakurai Shite "Okina": Makiko Sakurai Waki "Flower Fairy" and Ai: Akira Yoshimatsu Shomyo: Yukana Yamaguchi Mask box and jiutai: Masako Yoshida Kotsuzumi and Noh flute: Hiroya Imai Mask: Shuta Kitazawa
Time & Location
Jan 05, 2025, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM
Kanda Rakudoan, Sekino Building, 2-16-6 Kanda Tsukasamachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 101-0048, Japan
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"Manhattan Oji" will be performed again on January 5th, 2025. The play was first performed in New York in 1993, with a preview in 2006, and has been performed annually since 2007. It's true that 17 years ago, it was a story about immigrants living in Manhattan. However, as of 2021, Japan has become a major immigrant country, with 3.07 million foreign residents and 1.82 million foreign workers.
The awareness of "living together with people from other countries" has not yet been cultivated among Japanese people. The Japanese mentality is to view them as "outsiders," which may also be linked to the recent response of the Japanese Immigration Bureau.
It is those who are "materially" poor who are approached by spirits and called out to them. They are the ones who bring back to life in the present the ancestors and ancient spaces of their…