The Ladies from Kawamata

At our first performance in Tokushima, we were incredibly blessed to have a group of very special people from Kawamata.  I met these amazing ladies and men when I visited here in 2004 researching and collecting any clues about the original dogugaeshi.  I was taken to an outdoor theatre, a Noson Butai,  way way up in the mountains where the dogugaeshi was performed and shown the original screens.  The group of women were remembering the performances they saw when they were younger and were describing their experiences to me.  I was videotaping them at the time, so a little bit of their stories are in my show.  They were able to see my completed Dogugaeshi and meet the company which was very special.