Shadow, Wall, Light, Dark; I can recall it, and Beer.
COLLOL
40 years after the war. 80 years after the war. Love & adventure have faded out but the present is still here as something eternal.
This play begins after love and adventure are already over. It tells of a man, a woman, a girl, a boy, an old woman, an old man— in short, a story where every generation has a place. And yet, it moves in cycles that “repeat forever”: like a carousel, like a parallel world, like generative AI, like a society growing older with fewer new lives, like intimacy, pregnancy loss, birth, and child-raising, like you and me waking each morning, and sleeping each night. On stage, one female playwright-performer embodies them all. Step right up, dear audience, and behold. This work does not seek story. It seeks dialogue—here and now. Inspired by Haruki Murakami's novel Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985) and Kyoko Okazaki's manga PINK (1987), the play confronts Japan's question: Forty years after the war. Eighty years after the war. How long will the country keep calling itself “postwar”?
Venue
- Chat Noir
- 1-76-1-104 Hinode-cho, Naka-ku, Yokohama 231-0066
After this performance, it becomes the late-night meeting point.
Date and Time
12.7 Sun 16:00
12.7 Sun 20:00
Running Time
55min
Language
Japanese
Translation/Subtitles
English surtitles and synopsis will be provided, with the bilingual (Japanese-English) script available upon request.
Accessibility
Tickets
There are three ticket tiers: Matsu, Take, and Ume. Please choose according to your budget.
Admission on the day will follow the order of check-in.
Premium ¥10,000
Standard ¥4,000
Economy ¥1,000
Children Free
YPAM Registrant ¥1,000
*An additional one drink is required for all tickets.
Please check the drink menu at the venue:
Alcoholic beverages: ¥800–¥1,800
Soft drinks: ¥800
While this production is not designed as a children's program, families with children are welcome at the evening performance.
Children can enter free of charge, and strollers are permitted.
For children of elementary school age and older, we kindly ask that each child orders one drink.
Support Tickets (for those unable to attend)
If you can't attend but still wish to support, we will send you performance photos and a thank-you email after the show.
・Big Support ¥5,000
・Quiet Support ¥2,000
Available at
the YPAM Ticketing site
COLLOL Ticket Form
Artist Information
- COLLOL
Founded in 1999 by four actresses from the theatre company Yubiwa Hotel.
From the voices of women working in Tokyo, Japan—desires, angers, affections, solitudes—we shape these fragments into plays, creating a theatre that is at once refined, elegant, and fiercely untamed: a theatre for me to survive until tomorrow.
Faint tremors hidden in the fabric of everyday life.
A contemporary yūgen: fragile and transient—emotion, body, love, life—private, poetic, touched by death.
Vulgar and vivid;
As warm as blood-heat;
Colorful and aromatic;
Beautiful like lots of dreams.
members:
Ayako Taguchi (Representative / Playwright & Director),
Keigo Emura (Sound & Director),
Atsushi Kakumoto (Research & Director),
Hilomi Yatsuda (Actress),
Junko Suzuki (Promotional Art / Design).
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Recent Works:
• “Daughters (formerly * kashika-shika-shika-shikashi-kashi-kashi-kashi-kashi— after King Lear)” – Invited Poti to the International Festival of Regional Theatres, Georgia (Aug 2023)
• “The Dentistry of Visibility / Deer / However / Poetry / Pastry / Fahrenheit (kashika-shika-shika-shikashi-kashi-kashi-kashi-kashi)— after King Lear” @APOC Theatre, Tokyo (Sep 2022)
• “Sally Carrol” @CHUBBY (Sep 2013)
• “Consumption and Violence, Afterwards” @Waseda LIFT (Oct 2012)
• “Furikiru” @Ebisu site
• “As I am, as you are and as they are, we already are a god.” invited to the Gochang International Festival of Theatre, Korea and @BankART NYK hall, Yokohama & Super Deluxe, Tokyo (2010)
• Yukio Mishima Reading: “Beauty, the Collective, and the University of Tokyo Struggle” @Sotetsu Hondaya Theater, Yokohama (Feb 2009)
- Ayako Taguchi
Representative of COLLOL, playwright, director, and actress. She graduated from the University of Tokyo with a degree in Aesthetics. Drawing on her experience as a performer with physical theater companies such as Yamanote Jijosha and Theatre Company Shelf, and on playwriting methods learned from playwright Daisuke Kishii, she creates performances rooted in keen bodily awareness, meticulous readings of texts, and careful research into the places and histories where her works unfold. In 2015 she gave birth to her first child, paused company activities, and resumed them in 2022. Born in Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, in November 1975. She was a member of the children's theater troupe CATS Kyaa (directed by Miyako Hatanaka) throughout her elementary and junior high school years.
Staff, Cast and Credits
Written, Directed & Performed by
Ayako Taguchi
Sound & Direction
Keigo Emura
Research & Direction
Atsushi Kakumoto
Technical Assistance (Sound & Lighting)
Hiromu Kitai (Akumu Club)
Front Desk / Reception
Hiromi Yatsuda, Junko Suzuki, Takako Taguchi
Production Cooperation
Aki Moriyama (tea for two)
Graphic Design
Junko Suzuki
PV Filming
Hiroyuki Oki
Produced by
COLLOL
