Entries include short notes on each work, links to scripts on note, and links to production sites or preserved archive material.
Starting Point
"Container," "Crossroad," and "Junction" offer a relatively clear entry into the concerns and methods shaping the recent body of work.
Another Layer
Works written for or presented with other groups and projects.
After Viewing
After spending some time with the archive, you can continue to the contact page for commissions, invited performances, and script licensing.
#0132023
Starting from the contrasting landscapes of Yumeshima wetlands and a container terminal, this work reconsiders Osaka as a port city through the perspective of standardized boxes. Logistics, Expo development, and urban transformation accumulate into layered narratives.
Script on note Archived production site
#0122022
Using locations marked by the memory of the Osaka air raids as reference points, the work traces war, evacuation, and the inheritance of promises. Present-day cityscapes are set against distant battlefields to question the contours of displacement.
Script on note Archived production site
#0112021
Set between a tower apartment and a public phone booth, the piece placed audiences on different floors so that each group experienced the work from a separate perspective. Social distance and division were made visible through the performance format itself.
Script on note Production Site
#0102019
A tour performance in Enokojima where audiences were guided by actors through spaces inside and outside the venue. Following the history of the submerged imaginary city "Sokohaka," the work turned urban memory and future visions into a bodily experience.
Script on note Production Site
#0092018
Taking the Higashi-Yokobori River as its subject, this work collected fragments of Osaka's landscape through movement across its bridges. By tracing a waterway that once marked urban borders, it refreshed the bodily sense of living in the city.
Script on note Production Site
#0082017
From the premise of figures awakening inside coin lockers, the piece sets off a chain reaction in which urban modules begin to mutate. A closed environment becomes a frame for anonymity and unease in the modern city.
Script on note Archived production site
#0072016
Referring to Tennoji Park after the disappearance of its once-famous open-air karaoke culture, the work examines the blank spaces that remain in a neatly regulated public environment. Memories of people pushed out by urban maintenance are reconstructed through a report-theater form.
Script on note Archived production site
#0062014
Set on the reclaimed land of Maishima, where development stalled, the work collages official documents and citizen interviews. Through actors' bodies and movement, it visualizes the gap between urban planning and lived discourse, asking what a city really is.
Script on note
#0052013
Using coin-operated parking lots as a motif for suspended urban space, the play rapidly connects fragments of narrative. It is an early representative work that captures both the manic speed of the city and the sorrow carried by people within it.
Script on note Archived production site
#0042010
Centered on the subway as urban infrastructure, this work explores movement, solitude, and connection in metropolitan life. It became a turning point for the company and later led to revivals and touring developments.
Script on note
#0032009
An early work that follows layers of memory laid over urban scenery and crosses the boundary between reality and fiction. The perspective that would later define Hayashi's city-research pieces is already visible here.
Script on note
#0022008
The second work layers together voices from people standing at the edges of the city and redraws the contours of relation. It remains an important early piece in which the seeds of later documentary-report theater can already be seen.
Script on note
#0012007
The first production of Kyokuto Taikutsu Dojo and the starting point of its ongoing method of turning urban observation into theater. It still occupies an important place for understanding the later body of work.
Script on noteWorks written for or presented with other groups and projects.
2016 / Featured
A work set around Shonai and the southern edge of Itami Airport, following an imagined route from the urban fringe toward the center.
Script on note
2014 / Featured
A longer piece tracing suburban movement and the unstable junctions between roads, malls, and the surrounding city.
Script on note
2023 / Featured
A short near-solo piece in which a housewife loses her way inside a supermarket and keeps speaking through the fog.
Script on noteOpen the rest of the list
A short near-solo piece that traces the life of Junko Koshino on a runway.
Script on noteA middle-length two-person piece about departure and farewell in a world where movement is only possible from left to right.
Script on noteArchive Note
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