Under Execution, Under Jailbreak (Play)
Under Execution Under Jailbreak (死刑執行中脱獄進行中, Shikei Shikkōchū Datsugoku Shinkōchū) is a play based on the short story of the same name by Hirohiko Araki. The stage version of Under Execution Under Jailbreak also incorporates the story of Dolce and His Master into the play.[1]
The play stars actor Mirai Moriyama and is directed and choreographed by Ney Hasegawa. It is composed by Chung-Ho Sai with his band bonobos.
The play was first performed at Tokyo's The Galaxy Theatre from November 20 to 29, 2015, before a national tour of theaters in Sendai, Hiroshima, Sapporo, Toyama, and Osaka in December 2015.[2]
The stage production was recorded and released on DVD and Blu-ray in Japan on August 17, 2016.[3] WOWOW satellite television occasionally broadcasts recordings of the play on their services.[4]
Summary
A man who has been sentenced to death and imprisoned. However, the room he was in was too strange to be called a prison. As soon as the man begins his life there, everything in the room begins trying to execute him. While struggling to escape, the man eventually climbs onto a yacht floating in the ocean. He sees the illusion of the woman he killed, and a cat staring at the sin he committed. Is it a prison or an execution room? Can he escape from this strange world?
Cast
- Mirai Moriyama
- Eriko Hatsune
- Naoki Iimuro
- Manji Edogawa
- Daisuke Omiya
- Ryoji Sasamoto
- Aiichiro Miyagawa
- Hirokazu Morikawa
