Essays

TERASIA Artist Interview Vol. 2 Maho Watanabe (dramaturg)

Maho Watanabe, who served as dramaturg for both Tera and TERA in Kyoto, spent her elementary school years in Qatar, discovered the world of theatre while studying abroad in Palestine as a university student, and is currently living in Switz

[Interview] Director Yukari Sakata Discusses the Journey to Arrive at Tera and Where TERASIA Is Headed

TERASIA: Theatre for Traveling in the Age of Isolation is an international collaborative project for a new era that launched in 2020 in the wake of the global COVID-19 pandemic. In November 2021, a ten-day virtual festival—TERASIA Online We

Introduction: About TERASIA

Text by Maho Watanabe (Dramaturge) 1. Concept1-1. TERA's new form to travel in Asia: TERASIA When we created Tera in 2018, we intended a performance that keeps transforming through encounters with new places and people. In this first vers

Correspondence: On the Music of TERA and เถระ - 1. The Role of Musicians and "Traditional" Music

by Kyojun Tanaka and Great Lekakul Letter No.1 - From Kyojun to GreatDear Mr. Great, I’m so grateful for such a wonderful opportunity to talk about the music in TERA Japan & Thailand editions. I hope we can exchange our musical inspiratio

Buddhist Preachings of Hell and the Arts: Explanatory Illustrations, Rakugo, and Plays - Part 1

By Kohichi Watari, School of Global Japanese Studies, Meiji University Illustration: Jikkai Sugoroku (Collection of the National Diet Library) IntroductionI had the good fortune of coming across documentary footage from the production TERA

"TERA เถระ" from Behind the Subtitles

Text by Miho Sentoku (Japan-Thailand performing arts coordinator / "TERA เถระ" subtitles translator) To start from the conclusion (yes, we’re beginning at the end, and since this essay is riddled with spoilers, I’d recommend watching the p

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