藤田貴大が全作品の脚本と演出を務める演劇団体として2007年設立。2012年よりオリジナルの演劇作品と並行して、他ジャンルの作家との共作を発表。あらゆる形で作品を発表し、演劇界のみならず様々なジャンルの作家や観客より高い注目を受けている。
Mum & Gypsy a theatre company founded in 2007 by Takahiro Fujita who writes and directs all mum&gypsy production. Takahiro has collaborated with the same actors and technical staff members most of the time while they are not the members of the company. The company present a production every other month. Since 2012, he started collaboration with variety of writers as well as he releases his own theater. He collaborates diversity of artists and present theater acclaimed by people in theater and not in theater both.
マームとジプシー主宰/演劇作家
1985年4月生まれ。北海道伊達市出身。桜美林大学文学部総合文化学科にて演劇を専攻。07年マームとジプシーを旗揚げ。以降全作品の作・演出を担当する。作品を象徴するシーンを幾度も繰り返す“リフレイン”の手法で注目を集める。11年6月-8月にかけて発表した三連作「かえりの合図、まってた食卓、そこ、きっと、しおふる世界。」で第56回岸田國士戯曲賞を26歳で受賞。以降、様々な分野の作家との共作を積極的に行うと同時に、演劇経験を問わず様々な年代との創作にも意欲的に取り組む。13年、15年に太平洋戦争末期の沖縄戦に動員された少女たちに着想を得て創作された今日マチ子の漫画「cocoon」を舞台化。同作で2016年第23回読売演劇大賞優秀演出家賞受賞。演劇作品以外でもエッセイや小説、共作漫画の発表など活動は多岐に渡る。
Director/Playwright
Born in Hokkaido in 1985. Started at a local theater as an actor from 10 years old. He studied at Obirin University where Oriza Hirata taught, and started working for him as a director’ s assistant. In 2007, he established mum&gypsy while being a student of the Obirin University and started his career as playwright and director for all mum&gypsy production. His early production was based on his memory as a teenager about motif such as sea, town, girl, mother and death. His unique method to show the same scene in different angle for the audience like a movie scene became acquired in theater later. His had incorporated refrain technique which has been used in music scene for long time to his theater which later became his great feature of his theater. His other unique feature of his creation style is that he does not write and give the text to the actors and he directly gives lines to the actors during the rehearsal.
In 2011, he won the 56th Kishida Award by “Home, Waiting Dining Table, A World of Falling Salt” only the age of 26th. He collaborated with variety of artists and various age of actors. In 2014, the first overseas production “Dots and lines, and the cube formed. The many different worlds inside. And light” in Italy and Chile were successful. In 2016, not only history and society for the theme, he created “cocoon” based on the true story of girl solders in Okinawa during the world war II and won the director award at the 23rd Yomiuri Theater Award. In 2016, he wrote “Nina’ s Cotton” which was about the life of director, Yukio Ninagawa, and was planning to have production one for each together, but it never happened due to Ninagawa’ s death. He directed classic theater such as “Romeo and Juliette” which story develops un-clockwise, complicated way of stage set disposition and main characters were all played by women actresses. In July in 2018, his newest production “BOAT” was performed at the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre which is more than 800 seats. Works other than theater, he has contributed in many ways such as Fashion show, music live direction, essay, manga co-production.