Festival for the Fish

Festival for the Fish

by Yu Miri

March 2004

New Wimbledon Theatre

“I’m going to kill him too as I hate his sad face full of razor cuts.”

A glimpse into the dark underbelly of modern life in Japan. The estranged members of a working class Japanese family gather for the youngest son’s funeral. His diary reveals a deeply scarring Oedipal experience. Human relationships at their most affectionate and most bitter are played out and a family of strangers are reunited by a common past.

Yu Miri is one of Japan’s foremost contemporary writers. Festival for the Fish won the Kishida Drama Award in 1992.

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Creatives

Writer Yu Miri
Director Kwong Loke
Set & Costume Designer Kimie Nakano
Video Projection Designer Kimie Nakano
Lighting Designer Adam Crosthwaite
Music Composer Fung Lam

Photography by Kimie Nakano