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Kuro Tanino (タニノクロウ) (born 1976) is a Japanese theatre director and playwright. Born into a family of psychiatrists, Tanino also himself trained and worked a regular psychiatrist before turning to theatre. He founded the theatre group Niwa Gekidan Penino (literally "garden theatre company Penino") in 2000 and he writes, directs and designs all productions. He is also a painter and sculptor.〔(Niwa Gekidan Penino website )〕〔(Festival/Tokyo 2009 Autumn website )〕 His plays are highly surrealistic, filled with bizarre characters and creatures, influenced by Juro Kara. He prefers to use storyboards to writing regular play texts. The design is often very meticulous and colorful, with strange, incongruous elements crammed into small spaces.〔(Creating Illusionary Spaces: The World of Kuro Tanino ) Performing Arts Network Japan interview〕 Influenced by Marcel Duchamp's method of creating miniatures of his work and carrying them around with him, Tanino considers his sets and plays to be like fully formed pictures, arranging performers like parts of an installation or tableaux.〔Iwaki, Kyoko, Tokyo Theatre Today – Conversations with Eight Emerging Theatre Artists, 2011, pp. 226-241〕 His series of "Hakobune" (ark) plays were staged at his apartment and involved elaborate sets in spite of the cramped sizes. "Frustrating Picture Book for Adults" (2008) was later also staged in Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Finland, while "The Room, Nobody Knows" (2012) was performed in America in January 2014 and has also been staged in Europe.〔(Japan Society )〕〔(Korjaamo festival )〕 For "The Frustrating Picture Book for Adults" the stage was divided into upper and lower platforms, with the upper part inhabited by two old women, one with a pig’s face and the other with a sheep’s face. In the low-ceilinged room of the set, there is a log piercing the ceiling and another log that pierces the floor between the upper and lower levels. In the lower level a young man in student uniform was tied to one of the trees, causing him to ejaculate when the tree was stroked by the "pig" or the "sheep". They would then eat the white liquid that came out of the tree.〔(Performing Arts Network Japan )〕 "The Town Where the Sun and Underwear are seen" (2009) was staged at Festival/Tokyo 2009 Autumn, while "Box in the Big Trunk" (2013), which combined the three Hakobune productions into one "set", was performed in Tokyo and Kyoto.〔(Festival/Tokyo website )〕〔(Kyoto Experiment website )〕 He has also directed adaptations of Ibsen and Chekhov.〔(Drama outsider takes a step into the theater ) Article in The Japan Times, January 30, 2009〕 ==Notes== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kuro Tanino」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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