Yudai Kamisato / Okazaki Art Theatre
Playwright and Direction: Yudai Kamisato
Performers: Sumire Urata, Sayaka Shigemi, Yoshitaka Shimada
Duration : 100 min ( including intermission ）
I met a fishing enthusiast in a pub who often goes fishing at Lake Biwa. This is a story he told while eating Oden.
The propagation of foreign fish has always been a problem in Lake Biwa. The foreign fish eat endemic species and so the administration at the lake created something called “Foreign Fish Collecting Boxes” along the shore of the lake. If one of these fish is caught, its encouraged that you put it in the box, which essentially means it’s disposed of. We have to throw away bluegill, black bass and other foreign fish. However for black bass fishers it's good manners to release them, insisting they are innocent.
I chuck them away.
Speaking of which, do you know who brought the bluegill to Japan?
It was shortly before the Tokyo Olympics.
The prince at the time decided to introduce the bluegill to Japan as food after he encountered it at trip to the US.
The bluegill was praised as the “Happy Prince Fish” and spread all over Japan.
—Yudai Kamisato
Born in 1982 in Lima, Peru, Yudai Kamisato is a writer and stage director. He spent his teens in Paraguay, the United States, and elsewhere. In 2006, he became the youngest person ever to win the top prize at the Toga Directors Competition for his staging of "Desire Caught by the Tail", based on a script by Pablo Picasso. In 2018, he won the 62nd Kishida Kunio Drama Award for "The Story of Descending the Long Slopes of Valparaíso". His work as a writer has attracted increasing attention in recent years, with his play scripts appearing in the literary magazine Shincho and translations of his plays receiving performances and readings in such places as Seoul, Hong Kong, Taipei, and New York. He made his debut as a novelist with "An Exiled Ball Boy", which was published in Shincho in June 2013. His work reflects his strong interests in politics and social conditions as well as explores the theme of synchronicity experienced with others you cannot understand. From October 2016, he spent a year in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on a grant from the Agency for Cultural Affairs, and was also a junior fellow of The Saison Foundation from 2011 to 2016.
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