On stage, a group of students play tennis and chit chat as we hear some of their “actual” audio interviews. The voices layer onto a landscape etched by their buoyant youthfulness and sudden moments of idleness, gradually revealing how they grew up, and where they are now. What will we make of these complex situations that we unexpectedly come to know? And what will we see as they continue their pleasant game of tennis?

Using the methods of documentary filmmaking that he learned alongside theater, Takuya Murakawa depicts alternative worlds in which fiction, reality, and chance affect one another. In this work, (based on Tennis, a documentary film directed by Katsutoshi Asahi,) Murakawa illuminates the contours of the near-yet-far distance between self and other. The performance takes place at a meeting room in a civic center in Kyoto’s Okazaki area, a location contiguous with our everyday lives.