March 7th [Wed] 10:00-11:30 / Tokyo International Forum Hall D1 Director: OTORI Hidenaga［theater critic］ The folly of junky “J-Theater” - somewhat notable for its uncritical reproduction and presentation of certain bizarre aspects of contemporary Japanese culture to viewers - has almost come to an end. Now the necessity to review contemporary theater in a historical context is arising. I would like to examine the possibility of “post J-Theater,” making references to important contemporary thinkers such as Giorgio Agamben, also considering the intellectual imagination of the avant-garde theater artists from the sixties driven by radical destruction and creation, as well as the fruits of the theatrical structures that derived from their philosophical reflections on the body and space. Companies: Gesshoku Kagekidan / Potudo-ru / Shintai Hyôgen circle / Tsubaki-gumi and more. Gesshoku Kagekidan © Hamaguchi Futoshi Potudo-ru © Hikino Wakana Shintai Hyôgen Circle © Aochi Daisuke Tsubaki-gumi ·Director：OTORI Hidenaga Born in 1948. Artistic Director of Laokoon (Kampnagel, Hamburg) from 2002 to 2004. Among his books are Nijusseiki Gekijou: Rekishi to shite no Engeki to Sekai [The 20th Century's Polyphonic Theater: the Arts and the Worlds as a History], NODA Hideki: Akaoni no Chosen [Noda Hideki: The Challenges of Red Demon] (co-written with NODA Hideki), and translations of Tadeusz Kantor's Essays and Manifestos and Andrej Tarkovskij's The Sculpting Time.