Chiten Theatre: Motoi Miura Artist Talk

A free talk and Q&A with Motoi Miura, director of Chiten Theatre’s The Gambler

Join us for a special artist talk with Motoi Miura, Artistic Director of Chiten Theatre and director of The Gambler.

Drawing on Chiten’s extensive company archives, Miura will explore his approach to theatre-making, the evolution of Chiten’s artistic practice, and his reflections on the future possibilities of contemporary theatre. The session offers a rare insight into one of Japan’s most distinctive and internationally respected theatre companies.

The event will include a Q&A, and will be delivered in Japanese with a professional interpreter.

This event is open to anyone interested in theatre-making, and is free to attend.

Motoi Miura

Born in 1973, Miura graduated from the Toho Gakuen College of Drama and Music. In 1996 he joined Seinendan Theater Company, where he worked as an assistant director to Oriza Hirata and as full-time staff at Komaba Agora Theatre. From 1999 he studied in Paris for two years on a government scholarship, learning directing, arts management and artistic directorship under Jacques Blanc. He returned to Japan in 2001 and started his work with his company Chiten, directing Japan premières of plays by Jon Fosse and David Harrower. In 2005 he left Seinendan and moved to Kyoto, and won the Outstanding Performance Award at the Toga Director Contest. He has been re-creating the four masterpieces of Chekhov since 2007 and in the same year he received the Agency of Cultural Affairs New Director Award for his production of “The Cherry Orchard”. In 2010 he received the Kyoto Prefecture Culture Award and his first book on production theory Is just being interesting OK? was published. He has won many other awards. Among his productions are Philip Glassʼs opera In the Penal Colony (2008), Elfriede Jelinek’s Kein Licht. (2012), and Beltort Brecht’s Fatzer (2013).