Toshiki Okada
Pratthana – A Portrait of Possession
© Pratthana – A Portrait of Possession © Tananop Kanjanawutisit ©
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© Pratthana – A Portrait of Possession © Sopanat Somkhanngoen ©
Directed and scripted by Toshiki Okada
Based on the novel by Uthis Haemamool
Set design, Yûya Tsukahara
Assistant stage director, Wichaya Artamat
With Jarunun Phantachat, Kemmachat Sermsukchareonchai, Kwankaew Kongnisai, Pavinee Samakkabutr, Sasapin Siriwanij, Tap-a-nan Tandulyawat, Teerawat Mulvilai, Thanaphon Accawatanyu, Thongchai Pimapunsri, Waywiree Ittianunkul, Witwisit Hiranyawongkul
A production by Centre d’Asie de la Fondation du Japon ; precog co., LTD. ; and chelfitsch
Organised by Fondation du Japon
In association with Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture) ; Les Spectacles vivants – Centre Pompidou (Paris) ; and Festival d’Automne à Paris
With support from The Saison Foundation
First performed in 2018 in Bangkok
Show performed as part of Japonismes 2018
With support from the Fondation franco-japonaise Sasakawa and Onda
Toshiki Okada, one of Japan’s foremost theatre directors, presents two pieces in which personal accounts are interwoven with major upheavals in history : Five Days in March, created in 2004, and his latest work Pratthana – A Portrait of Possession. Both are emblematic of the choreographic and theatrical work of Okada and his company chelfitsch.
Pratthana – A Portrait of Possession, an adaptation of the novel by the Thai writer, Uthis Haemamool mixes the accounts of a painter’s tumultuous love affairs with that of Thailand’s recent past, from the 1990’s to the present day. Toshiki Okada has adapted this life story for the theatre and transfigures it, via his choreography inspired by gestures taken from everyday life, bringing out the sensuality of the actors, and via the set design, by the artist Yûya Tsukahara a member of the contact Gonzo collective. Thailand is seen as a deformed body, beaten into submission by an autocratic central power. Politics and the nation, control and power, desire and the body, seeing and being seen... the piece explores the nuances between these different poles in search of a through road. In doing so, the piece examines the notion of frontiers, and how we can erase their contours or of transgress them, in search of what is common to us all.
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Duration : 4h with 20 minutes of intermission
Thaïe performance with French subtitles
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