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Play wright KOKIMITANI
Directed by KAZUYA YAMADA
[CAST]MASAHIKO NISHIMURA, YOSHIMASA KONDO
[STAFF]Set design/YASUE ITO lighting design/KOJI TERAOKA Costume design/KIICHI ARAI Music/HARUMI KAWASAKI Sound design/Masahiro Inoue Stage MAnager/TETSUO MATSUZAKA Producer/GEN SATO
Produced by PARCO CO;LTD
The time is 1940, filled with the gloomy wartime atmosphere. One is the comedy troupe writer, and the other is a hard-nosed government censor. The antagonistic two men would find themselves that they are engaged in the most unlikely partnership through considering “laughter.” The first two-men play by Koki Mitani depicting the odd friendship that grows out between two men who have completely opposite characters. Won the best play award of Yomiuri Engeki Award in 1996. Record
October 25 to November 12, 1996 first opened at Aoyama Enkei Theater in Tokyo
| November 15 - 20 | Kintetu Art-kan in Osaka |
| November 22 | Tottori Kenmin Bunka Kaikan small hall |
| November 24 | Cledo Hall in Hiroshima |
| November 25 | Ehime KEnmin Bunkakaikan Sub Hall |
| November 26, 27 | Tsukusi Kaikan in Fukuoka |
| Nobember 28 | Okayama Shiritsu Shimin Bunka Hall |
| November 30 - December 1 | Doshin Hall in Sapporo |
| December 3 | Morioka Theater |
| December 4 | Koriyama SHimin Bunka Center |
| December 5 | Denryoku Hall in Sendai |
| December 6 | Mito Geijutu Kan |
| December 7 | Media Hall in Shizuoka |
| December 10- 12 | Telepia Hall in Nagoya Won the Best Play Award of Yomiuri Engeki Award |
| June 5 to 28, 1998 | Reproduced at the Parco Theater in Tokyo |
| July 2 - 4 | Doshin Hall in Sapporo |
| July 8 - 20 | Kintetsu Art-kan in Osaka |
2006 DVD released after 10 years from the opening
WARAI NO DAIGAKU DVD with English Subtitle
The masterpiece of a two-men play by Koki Mitani.
Opened in 1996 and won Yomiuri Engeki Award for the best play and best production, the legendary production finally comes back as a DVD!
One was delegatedOne was compelled
Those men’s friendship accomplished a perfect comedy
In 1940 when the cloud of World War II was dark, two men met in a room in the Police Department. One is a hard-nosed government censor, Mutsuo Sakisaka (Masahiko Nishimura), and the other is an in-house playwright of a comedy troop, “Warai no Daigaku, Hajime Tsubaki (Yoshimasa Kondo). Sakisaka, who completely against a comedy to be produced in a time of emergency, relentlessly orders alteration of the script in order to suspend the production.
Tsubaki, who wants to obtain permission for the production at any price, squarely tackles the revision, using Sakisaka’s irrational demands as an underhanded way. Thus begins the drama of two men in a Police interrogation room.
Design by TAKAHASHI Masayuki Stage Photo by YAKOU Masahiko
109min. Recorded At PARCOTHEATER ,June 1998
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