2014.3. 1
An international theater production titled "SHUGEN ~Celebration/Expression~," themed on the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011, premiered in the fall of 2013 and concluded in January 2014. Co-presented by the Japan Foundation and the Aomori Museum of Art, the piece brought together a diverse group of theater professionals from Japan, China, and Korea, and toured eight cities: Aomori, Daejeon, Seoul, Jeonju, Shanghai, Beijing, Sendai, and Tokyo. In the following article, the director and writer Koji Hasegawa looks back on the project and discusses his thoughts on "SHUGEN."