In current years, we’ve seen a fast rollout of live-action stage variations of the anime movies of Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki. “Spirited Away,” “My Neighbor Totoro” and “Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind” have all been tailored, with Nausicaa even turning into a kabuki play.
Yet one other Miyazaki-to-stage-play challenge has now been introduced. This time, although, it’s not a Studio Ghibli film that’s the supply materials, however a piece from farther again in Miyazaki’s previous: “Future Boy Conan.”
Though he’s greatest generally known as a filmmaker, Miyazaki’s didn’t begin out directing anime for the large display screen. His very first solo-directing credit score was “Future Boy Conan,” an anime TV sequence which started airing in Japan within the spring of 1978. The 26-episode “Future Boy Conan,” a free adaptation of American novelist Alexander Key’s “The Incredible Tide,” is an journey anime that takes place in a world the place human society has largely collapsed after a devastating international conflict, and, as you’d count on from a Miyazaki anime, man’s shortsighted inhumanity to man, and nature, are recurring themes.
The “Future Boy Conan” stage play can be directed by Israeli playwright Inbal Pinto, who beforehand directed stage variations Haruki Murakami’s “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle” and Yoko Sano’s “The Cat That Lived a Million Lives.” Pinto may even be dealing with the play’s choreography and artwork route, with David Mambouch serving as co-director. The tailored script is being written by Yasuro Ito, and the composer for “Future Boy Conan” can be Umitaro Abe who additionally scored the “Penguin Highway” and “Drifting Home” anime films.
The wait gained’t be lengthy for the “Future Boy Conan” play, because it’ll be opening on the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre Playhouse (often known as Tokyo Geijutsu Gekijo) in Tokyo’s Ikebukuro district this coming May, with performances in June too at that location, adopted by a nationwide tour of yet-to-be-announced venues.
Related: Future Boy Conan stage play official web site
Source, photographs: PR Times
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