A museum full of stolen masterpieces and even more stolen intimacy.
A 1998 performance of Oriza Hirata's play set in a Tokyo museum sheltering paintings evacuated from a European war, where family and friends trade quiet conversations that reveal loneliness, love, and social unease, amid growing tensions.
Direction
Hirata's signature 'quiet theatre' style—subtext as main text.
Production
The museum becomes a character: beautiful, borrowed, hollow.
Director
Oriza Hirata
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
JP
