Whispering Blue
– I heard your voice from the back of a blue car
Project title:
Parallel Normalities
“Whispering Blue – I heard your voice from the back of a blue car”
Duration:
Monday, July 17 – Sunday, July 23 2023
*This is a seven-day long performance and will be performed only once.
Sites:
Various points around the city center of Dansai district, Loei province
*Details will be announced via LINE official account.
Language:
Thai, Japanese and some English
Free Admission
Project Outline
A Thai-Japanese collaborative projects
which designates a beauty of everyday life as starting point
Parallel Normalities is a three year collaborative project between a Japanese playwright, Natsuki Ishigami who works on site-specific theatrical and art projects using cities and communities as subject matter, and Thai playwright/ author Nuttamon Preamsamran.
As the culmination of the project, "Whispering Blue - I heard your voice from the back of a blue car" will be performed in Dansai District, Loei Province, Thailand. This work is an adaptation of the prototype version of the play “Ao ni au” that Ishigami produced in Kyoto in 2017. For the production, both the Thai and Japanese production team did research in Dansai and Gotemba city, in Shizuoka prefecture, the hometown of Ryuichiro Suzuki who is a photographer and one of the actors in the performance.
Credit
▼Parallel Normalities
“Whispering Blue – I heard your voice from the back of a blue car”
Created by: Nuttamon Pramsumran, Natsuki Ishigami
Performed by: Ryuichiro Suzuki, Tomonori Shimoda, People in Dansai
Produced by: Chigusa Tomita
Curated by: Siree Riewpaiboon
Project Manager: Hikaru Kuwahara
Coordinator: Kritsakorn Kanitchayanan
Assistant Producer: Wayla Amatathammachad
Organized by: Place and Narrative, Prayoon For Art Foundation
Co-organized by: The Japan Foundation
Supported by: The Saison Foundation
This work is a part of Loei Art Fes 2023: “Third Place”.
This work is produced for the Japan Foundation’s International Creations in Performing Arts 2023
and supported by The Saison Foundation (International Projects Support Program).
Artist Biography
Natsuki Ishigami
Playwright.centered around the theatrical group "Pepin Structural Designs" since 1999. In recent years, she has been working on site-specific plays and art projects using cities and communities as subject matter in and outside of Japan. Her recent works include writing and staging “Oesiki Project Tour Performance ‘BEAT,’” being Guest Curator for ADAM Artist Lab in Taipei Arts Festival 2019, and directing “Theater Today” in On Stage Shizuoka (FY2021), directing “Yoroboshi” at Shizuoka Performing Arts Center ( 2022).She is a chair of the non-profit art organization "Places and Narratives," based in Shizuoka since 2020.
Photo by：Masashi Kuroha
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Nuttamon Pramsumran
Writer, playwright. Born in Samut Sakhon, Thailand in 1993. Cofounder of Circle Theatre.B.A in Dramatic Arts program from Chulalongkorn University and M.F.A in Art Theory from Silpakorn University. Her works include “La maladie de l'amour: Detoxification of a Heart”（World Stage Design Festival, Taipei, Taiwan, 2017),”OK LAND” (Best Ensemble from Bangkok Theatre Festival 2020 and was selected to be in the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2022). She was Invited to TPAM2020（Yokohama, Japan）and also joined HEKTOMERON（Craiova, Romania) in 2021.
Photo by：Rinrada Pornsombutsatien