On the �gROLE�h
[�gRemains�h Director�fs notes]

Director: Shingo Kimura

 

In the production of �gRemains�h, there is no such a thing as �gRole�h in the sense it is commonly used in the general theater.

In the space we live in, there are various roles such as father, mother, grand parents, brothers, husband, wife, friends, acquaintances, colleagues, superiors, subordinates, seniors or juniors.

In the �gRemains�h, however, there are no such roles or names of roles.

�gRemains�h is a space where all the roles are abandoned or robbed.

We, human beings, are sometimes called a social animal. To be a social animal means we have social self. Social self is, in other words, oneself which can undertake some roles in the society.

�gRemains�h are suspicious of the human model which can be described as social animal.

�gRemains�h keep suggesting to the people living there only to be animal.

For those human beings who aim to be animal, it is not necessary to be equipped with gestures or expressions in the face which social self obligates oneself to own. What is necessary for animallike human being is not individuality or personality but the difference among individuals. They are: the hair, cheekbones, the ribs, backbones, the hip joint, the pubic hair, sexual organs and the difference of muscles which wrap them or support them.

We are living on the supposition that the gesture or the expressions in the face of social self are individuality or personality. �gRemains�h have strong doubts on this supposition.

We are under an illusion that the social self, that is, individuality is what we have obtained. On the contrary, �gRemains�h know that the individuality is nothing but an invented notion of the society (nation, people and various communities) to facilitate the administration of the individual entity. The suspicions we tend to feel when politicians appeal to the people through television originate exactly from here.

They talk to people as if everyone of them has his own individuality, but in fact they only like to have people like obedient sheep who blindly pay taxes. That is, the individuality is used a cover by politicians to hide their true intention to treat us as domestic animals and exploit us.

In the similar context, �gRemains�h reject any suggestion that the director of a production creates his theater respecting the individuality of each actor. �gRemains�h know well that almost all directors who pretend to make much of the individuality of each actor, in reality, wish to their actors as domestic animals just like politicians do. �gRemains�h renounce �grole�h or are robbed of it, and strongly demand to treat human being thoroughly as an individual.

It is by no means a sense or feeling of human beings who have degraded themselves to domestic animals, but nothing other than the desire of �gRemains�h to experience the sense or feeling of human being as true animals.

There lies a standard of fiction of �gRemains�h.