TBA:12 PERFORMANCE
Hot Pepper, Air Conditioner, and the Farewell Speech
by chelfitsch
Three vignettes track the absurd and mundane stories of a group of office employees in this stylized performance from the renowned Japanese theater troupe chelfitsch. With a unique choreography derived from everyday gestures, the company references the social and cultural characteristics of today’s Japan, not least of Tokyo, making a distinctive mark on contemporary Japanese performance. Hot Pepper, Air Conditioner, and the Farewell Speech strikes a perfect balance between wit and poignancy, and captures the quotidian trials of the modern Japanese workaday life.