Upcoming Projects

The Yokohama Theatre Group creates non-lingual and multi-lingual devised theatre. We’re always working on new projects, or redeveloping existing shows, and we’re eager to receive commissions or offers of collaboration.

Secret Project 2020

Civilization may be about to fall off a cliff. Or is it? Machinations are in progress, and we hope to bring you the answer soon.

We’re working on a secret, ongoing project that we hope to premiere in early 2020. We will be looking for collaborators (performers, musicians, comedians, etc.) who want to showcase new work with us. Stay tuned for further updates.

Untitled September 2020 Show

Creating shows the YTG way has always been about ongoing development of plays, but we so rarely get a chance to return to a theme. Next year we’ll be returning to the story of Shunkan, the Noh play that formed the heart of our 2014/2015 work Kikai-ga-shima.

During the Heian period, three men are exiled to a remote island as punishment for an attempted coup. In the present, two Canadians attempt to recount that story while their own identities conflict and collide.

Original Shows

Selected original plays devised collectively by a constantly changing ensemble of creative people. Click on an image for more information.

Antigone

A newly devised version of the ancient classic

RYOKOU | 旅行

A Play About Migration

The Outliers

Campfire Stories of the Future

Touch Me Not

A Play About Opposites

By the Hour

A meditation on middle-aged sex workers in Yokohama (TPAM Showcase 2016)

She-Wolf

A young woman’s self-assessment through the filter of Margaret of Anjou

The Other Show

A short partner show created for Kikai-ga-shima‘s Taipei tour and then remounted for a festival on a Fukushima mountaintop.

Kikai-ga-Shima

A Noh-inspired play about the reality-bending nature of the theatre

Hosted Shows

Selected guest performances produced by YTG

Two Little Boxes

A performance deconstructing gender roles by ReallyNice Physical Theatre Company

Space Hippo

Award-winning shadow puppetry by Mochinosha.

I’m Doing This For You

A one-woman comedy by Canadian writer/performer Haley McGee