ORPHANS AND STARS 

Songs of Paul Celan

2015

Musicians and actors perform 20 songs. Original texts of each song are mainly from Jewish poet Paul Celan’s pieces and Bertolt Brecht’s pieces. This theater music is brought to you by concert-form, dances, and reading performances.

Jun Kawasaki  

Direction and compose

 

 Ayako Kosaka  

Mezzo soprano, Conductor

Seika Miki 

Vocal

Keiko Komori

Clarinet, Sax

Aki Ozawa 

Guitar

Naoko Aoki   

Piano

Jun Kawasaki

Doublebass

 

Aya 

Butoh

Hiroyo Miura

Dance

 

Sung and acted by

Kentaro Tsuda

Keiici Ai

Akira Yoshimatsu Junko Kowashi, Kanako Shiratori

Satoshi Tsuboi

Ryota Ono

Yurie Inouchi

Takashi Mukai

Haruka Shimizu

Hikari Tsuchiya

Mizore Yamada

Mariko Muraoka

Mariko Tobiyama

 

Assistant director: Kentarou Nagatomo, Daisuke Mikome, Hideto Miyuki  

Supported by Junichi Aoki

Organized by Theater X

 

29 June 2015 at Theater X, Tokyo

 

14 October 2015 at Theater X, Tokyo