Oriza Hirata, that great renewing force in contemporary Japanese theatre, projects Chekhov into the future in an adaptation of The Three Sisters in which robots play an important part.
What will happen when Oriza Hirata, that great renewing force in contemporary Japanese theatre, meets Hiroshi Ishiguro, a leader in the field of robot research? You can learn the answer in this version of The Three Sisters, set in a tiny Japanese provincial village in an indeterminate but certainly gloomy future. This is a time of crisis when, due to relocation of production to other Asian countries, the nearby robot factor is no longer the economic driver it once was. The three sisters are not the same, either: their father, a robot engineer, has replaced his dead daughter with a geminoid, an almost-human robot. In this “android version”, Oriza Hirata masterfully blends comedy and drama to present the first work in history in which a real android interacts with the characters, delving into the world of feelings.
Autoria: Oriza Hirata (basat en l'obra d'Anton P. Txèkhov); Direcció: Oriza Hirata; Robots: Hiroshi Ishiguro (Osaka University i ATR Hiroshi Ishiguro Laboratory); Intèrprets: Geminoid F (androide), Robovie-R3 (robot), Kenji Yamauchi, Hiroko Matsuda, Hiroshi Otsuka, Mizuho Nojima, Minako Inoue, Akiko Ishibashi, Tadashi Otake, Tatsuya Kawamura, Natsuko Hori; Escenografia: Itaru Sugiyama; Vestuari: Aya Masakane; Disseny d'il·luminació: Shoko Mishima; Regidoria: Takao Nakanishi, Aiko Harima; Producció: Yoko Nishiyama; Desenvolupament dels androides i robots: Hiroshi Ishiguro (Osaka University, ATR Hiroshi Ishiguro Laboratory); Moviment i veu de l'androide: Minako Inoue ; Direcció del robot: Takenobu Chikaraishi (Osaka University; Hiroshi Ishiguro Laboratory / Osaka University Center for the Study of Communication Design); Assistència a l'operador del robot: Yuta Senda, Satoshi Ago; Sobretítol: Aya Nishimoto, Kenichi Akiyama (assistència); Col·laboració de so: FUJITSU TEN Japan; Tècnic de veu sintètica: AI, Inc; Organització: Fundació Japón Madrid; Patrocini: Japan Airlines; Producció executiva local: Blanc Produccions; Traducció: Eduard Bartoll;
