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Performing in Tokyo

I am way pumped! After a few weeks in the pay-to-play improv rehearsals, I was asked to play with the main team here in Tokyo! I have only met a few of the players, and I’m excited to see what they’re all like and how they play together. The folks I’ve met so far seem hella cool. Like I said before, improv folks are good people.

Seeing a Show in Tokyo

I saw my first play in Tokyo last week. The production was written by and expat (British) and performed my expats in a small British Pub downtown. The show was about a writer who is suffering from writers block, and is confronted by all the characters he has created. The line is blurred between his reality and the worlds he’s created through his work. This ultimately causes him to murder someone who may or may not have been one of his characters.

While the writing was on the strong-ish side, the acting was very “community theater.” But the thing that amazed me more than anything about the show is that despite the flaws of the production, I liked it anyway. I was impressed with the ability for foreigners from around the world who have found themselves in Tokyo to come together and create theater. Knowing the resolve it takes to do theater in the States – where English is spoken, and there is an audience for Western theater – I was even more impressed with this barebones production. It simply had so much heart.

I hope to entangle myself with the tiny theater company and have one of my plays produced. It would be an honor to tell the truth.