Takuo Miyanaga
mamagoto / ZuQnz
Presenter / producer. Born in Tokyo in 1981. Representative of a producing unit “ZuQnZ.” He belonged to the directing division of Seinendan from 2007 to 2011, and established the theatre company “mamagoto” with the playwright / director Yukio Shiba in 2009. He has been managing the company as executive director while, since 2012, enthusiastically working on creations with other artists.
Producing works with artists in the space called “theater,” I... always ask myself for what my “theatre” is needed. After the times when “theatre” functioned as a means of exposing the depths and surface of society, what is “theatre” expected to do in the ever-changing contemporary society? What we embody in a “theater” are <creation> and <imagination>. What I call a piece is the <imagination> that arises from each member of audience when they encounter <creation> that takes place on stage. That is why my “Theatre” exists: it is for “encounter” with the anonymous, myself that I have never known, or you who have just gone by. Perhaps it is something like a “prayer” to the world. Together with the director “Kunio Sugihara,” I would like to have an encounter with you.
宮永琢生
