Kabukiza TheatreKabukiza Theatre
October Program at the Kabukiza Theatre
Daily: Oct 02 (Wed) - Oct 26 (Sat), 2024
Matinee:11:00 AM
Evening Show: 4:30 PM
*No performances on the 9th (Wed) and 17th (Thu).
On sale: from Sep 14 (Sat), 2024 10:00 AM(JST)
Ticket Price
First Class Seat: 18,000
Second Class Seat: 14,000
Upper Tier A: 6,000
Upper Tier B: 4,000
Unit: Japanese Yen (tax included)
Ticket with "English Captioning Service"
Tickets that include an English captioning device are available on the website. Please select "Ticket with English Captioning Service" (1,500 yen will be added to the ticket price) on the ticket purchase page.
*Box Seat: 20,000 (Not available online. Click here for details.)
*Children over the age of 4 must purchase tickets to enter.
*Tea will not be offered at the Box Seats.
Kabukiza Theatre (at TOKYO) Theatre Information
- Single Act Tickets
- *Tickets for dates shown as "Sold Out" or for other preferred seating areas, may still be available from the promoter, Shochiku Co., Ltd. Please confirm the availability by phone or stop by the Box Office.
*English captioning service available to rent. Click here for details.
*Sold program (Detailed English synopses are found at the end of the Japanese program) available.
In the Matinee, you can enjoy a masterpiece by Chikamatsu Monzaemon portraying the solitude and tragic fate of a man exiled to a remote island, a kabuki dance about the vendetta of the Soga brothers, as well as a comedy depicting commoners who try to clear themselves of a false charge.
In the Evening Show, you will see the adaptation of a tragic love story, Izumi Kyōka's most famous novel, which has also been performed by the Shinpa theatre troupe, as well as a kabuki dance adapted from a love story set during the Heian period, which expresses the aesthetic beauty of that world.
HEIKE NYOGO NO SHIMA
Shunkan
['The Priest Shunkan' from 'The Heike and the Island of Women']
CAST :
- Shunkan, a high-ranking priest
- Onoe Kikunosuke
- Tanba no Shōshō Naritsune
- Nakamura Mantarō
- Chidori, a woman diver
- Kamimura Kichitarō
- Hei Hangan Yasuyori
- Nakamura Kichinojō
- Seno'o no Tarō Kaneyasu
- Nakamura Matagorō
- Tan Saemon no jō Motoyasu
- Nakamura Karoku
STORY :
The priest Shunkan has been exiled to "Devil's Island" for plotting against the dictator Kiyomori. After some years, a pardon is given to Shunkan and his fellow conspirators. However, as he hears that his wife has died in Kyoto, Shunkan gives up his place on the boat to freedom so that his companion's new wife can accompany her husband back to the capital. The boat leaves and Shunkan is left watching it disappear in the distance, knowing he will be left on the island forever. Enjoy this masterpiece of the 'jidaimono' history play category.
Intermission: 35 minutes
OTO NI KIKU SOGA NO IRODORI
['The Renowned Soga Brothers liven up the Feast']
CAST :
- Soga no Ichiman
- Onoe Ukon
- Soga no Hako'ō
- Onoe Maholo
- Kobayashi no Asahina
- Bandō Minosuke
- Hatano no Shirō
- Nakamura Hashinosuke
- Kewaizaka no Shōshō
- Onoe Sakon
- Oniō Shinzaemon
- Nakamura Shikan
- Ōiso no Tora
- Nakamura Kaishun
- Kudō Saemon Suketsune
- Onoe Kikugorō
STORY :
As Kudō Saemon Suketsune, the senior vassal of Minamoto no Yoritomo, is holding a feast in the pleasure quarters of Ōiso to celebrate his recent promotion, the Soga brothers Ichiman and Hako'ō who disguised themselves as Manzai performers arrive. Facing the man who is responsible for their father's death, they …
Intermission: 20 minutes
GONZA TO SUKEJŪ
['Gonza and Sukejū']
CAST :
- Gonza
- Nakamura Shidō
- Sukejū
- Onoe Shōroku
- Sukehachi
- Bandō Kamezō
- Okan, Gonza's wife
- Nakamura Tokizō
- Hikosaburō, a haberdasher
- Onoe Sakon
- Kantarō, a plasterer
- Nakamura Kichinojō
- Yosuke, a monkey trainer
- Nakamura Matsue
- Ishiko Bansaku, an official
- Kawarasaki Gonjūrō
- Hikobē, a haberdasher
- Nakamura Tōzō
- Rokurobē, a landlord
- Nakamura Karoku
STORY :
In this comedy by famous playwright Okamoto Kidō, two palanquin bearers, Gonza and Sukejū constantly argue. Hikobē, a man living in the same nagaya tenement gets arrested as a murder suspect, but that night, the two witness Kantarō the plasterer washing his kimono and something gleaming, so they testify about what they saw at the investigation. However, after the investigation, Kantarō comes to their nagaya tenement so everyone there starts to panic. This modern play takes one of the classic stories of the wise magistrate Ōoka Echizen and looks at it from the point of view of common townspeople.
intermission: 20 minutes
5:27 PM - 6:15 PM
ONNA KEIZU
['The Genealogy of Women']
CAST :
- Hayase Chikara
- Kataoka Nizaemon
- Koyoshi of the Kashiwaya
- Nakamura Manju
- Sakai Shunzō
- Bandō Yajūrō
- Otsuta
- Bandō Tamasaburō
STORY :
The linguist Hayase Chikara lives with the former geisha Otsuta, keeping it from his former teacher Sakai Shunzō. Sakai claims to know that Chikara lives with Otsuta and urges him to choose either to abandon his former teacher or his lover. Feeling a debt of gratitude towards his former teacher who raised him from a boy pickpocket to a scholar, he answers that he will give up his lover. On a moonlit night he meets Otsuta at the Yushima Tenjin Shrine to talk to her about breaking up.
Intermission: 35 minutes
GENJI MONOGATARI
['The Tale of Genji']
CAST :
- Rokujō no Miyasudokoro
- Bandō Tamasaburō
- Hikaru Genji
- Ichikawa Somegorō
- Aoinoue
- Nakamura Tokizō
- The Minister of the Left
- Bandō Yajūrō
- Wife of the Minister of the Left
- Nakamura Manju
STORY :
'The Tale of Genji' has been favored in Japan for a 1000 years. Of the whole long story which amounts to 54 volumes, the section concerning the love between Prince Hikaru Genji, his wife Aoinoue and his lover Rokujō no Miyasudokoro will be newly staged this month. Aoinoue, who is pregnant with Hikaru Genji's child, lies in bed with a mysterious illness. Hikaru Genji visits his lover Rokujō no Miyasudokoro. She is jealous of Aoinoue and her pregnancy, and reproaches him. As he cannot bear it, he leaves her mansion, and she abandons herself to grief and jealous fury …