What is “Theater TODAY”?

Through a local radio station and the public spaces of Shizuoka City, the project involves locals to engage with the place they live by enacting the extraordinary happenings of daily life based on a series of short ‘scripts’.

Set in a specific location, a ‘script’ is shared every week on the radio suggesting a series of actions that responds to social behaviour in the city. Each listener is encouraged to interpret the script by acting out a scene within their everyday life. Alternatively they can visit the location to observe others in action, or vicariously participate through the radio. Here, every participant is an actor and an audience of the city to explore beyond their imagination.

From making a cup of tea in the morning to walking down the same streets everyday, each moment makes up who you are, which often gets lost in today's society. By transforming the city into a stage, the project offers participants an alternative world where you have the control to make changes with a slight adjustment in parallel to your daily life.

Theatre TODAY is part of a cultural programme ‘ON STAGE SHIZUOKA’ led by the City of Shizuoka. Local residents, visitors and city enthusiasts are all welcome to take part through a series of activities in public spaces or purely tuning in the radio.