Theatre

This production is adapted from a chapter about alien creatures in Japanese comic artist Osamu Tezuka’s work “Phoenix”. The story is about Sakonnosuke, who goes to the Horaiji Temple one rainy night to seek a Buddhist nun, Yaobikuni. She has been brought up as a boy by her tyrannical father against her wishes, and she wants her own identity back. Knowing that the nun has cured her father’s terminal illness, she wants to stop the healing. But Sakonnosuke is caught in a time warp and travels back in time to 30 years earlier. The experience is an enlightening one for her as she sees life differently from then on.

Legend has it that taking the blood of the Phoenix would allow one to gain eternal life, and thus begins humankind’s endless killings in a scramble for immortality. The legendary Phoenix can transform into any living being and freely traverses time and space to observe what humankind would do to attain eternal life. It provides insights into humans’ love and hate, and even life and death, and offers an opportunity to review the true meaning of life.