The Japan Foundation Bangkok will present Japan's most talked-about theatre phenomena ‘chelfitsch' theatre company with its award-winning, world-touring production "Five Days in March" in Patravadi Theatre's Studio 1 on 11th and 12th November 2010.

The company name ‘chelfitsch' is a coinage by its brainchild, award-wining writer-director Toshiki Okada. It represents the baby-like disarticulation of the English word "selfish", intending to evoke the social and cultural characteristics of the today's Japan.

Written and directed by Toshiki Okada, "Five Days in March" is the winner of the prestigious 49th Kishida Kunio Drama Award in 2005. The play sets in the evenings before the U.S. declaration of the war on Iraq in 2003, when the encounter of two Japanese hipsters at a rock concert turns into five days of continuous sex. The piece unfolds as actors slip in and out of character while casually narrating and playing out scenes, obsessing nonchalantly over the microscopic details and trivial of the affair, oblivious to the imminent warfare.

Characterized by the deceptively insubstantial narrative, super-colloquial dialogue and exaggerated fidgeting-turned-choreography, chelfitsch's "Five Days in March" perfectly captures the irony and impotence felt by the Geneartion Y in Japan today.

"Five Days in March" has taken contemporary Japanese theatre to another level, its unique disconnection between movement and text has become a unique form that transcends language barriers, garnering the company wide acclaim in premier theatre festivals and venues in over twenty cities in twelve countries including Brussels, Paris, Salzburg, Milan, New York, Vancouver, Seoul, Singapore and Hong Kong.

"Five days in March" will be performed in Japanese with English and Thai surtitles. Tickets of 300 Baht (half-price discount for students) are now available at Total Reservation website and outlets.

Venue:          Studio 1, Patravadi Theatre
Date/ Time:   11 & 12 November 2010 (Thu & Fri) 8:00pm
Tickets:        300B (50% discount for full-time students)

Tickets will be available at Total Reservation from 20 September, the public can contact www.totalreservation.com or hotline 02-833-5555 to book the tickets. Total Reservation branches: Siam Paragon, Emporium, IMPACT Muang Thong Thani, BTS Mo Chit, BTS Victory Monument, The Mall: Bangkae, Bangkapi, Thapra, Ramkhamhaeng, Ngamwongwan.

More information:
Patravadi Theatre: www.patravaditheatre.com, 0 2412 7287
The Japan Foundation, Bangkok: www.jfbkk.or.th, 0 2260 8560