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The group Jun Tsutsui / dracom have presented a diversity of works ranging from surrealistic pieces full of humor to serious ones dealing with social issues. Their signature works include Moreuta, which gives viewers a strange feeling by staggering prerecorded lines and the performance by the actors, and Bottomless, which is a simple yet daring depiction of a character's last hours before death. JIKEN-BO, another piece, connects Greek tragedy with an incident that occurred in Japan. It attracted a lot of attention, and was praised by Eimi Ozawa in 2011 as a grand story whose vision extends to the figure of humankind shaped by language and constrained by laws in the form of grammar.

Jun Tsutsui is a theatrical director, playwright, and actor. He is the leader of the performance art group dracom. He won the Performing Arts award at the Kyoto Art Center Awards in 2007, and Bottomless, one of his signature plays, was selected as an excellent piece of contemporary Japanese theater at the Segal Center Japanese Playwrights Project 2018 (in New York).As the leader of dracom, Tsutsui has participated in numerous international festivals inside and outside Japan. As an individual, he directed About Dances in Shin-Nagata, and was in charge of spatial orchestration for Raung Jagat: Drone of Colours, which was written by Rully Shabara. His activities are based in Osaka and are not constrained by the boundaries of genre and form.