Oriza Hirata (平田オリザ, Hirata Oriza, born on 8 November 1962, in Tokyo) is a Japanese playwright, director, and academic. For the majority of his life, he has been best known for his work in theater and creating what he has coined, “contemporary colloquial theater,” or as theater critics call it, “quiet drama.”[1]
^Rimer, J. Thomas, Mitsuya Mōri, and M. Cody Poulton. The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Drama. New York: Columbia UP, 2014. Print.
girl group Momoiro Clover Z. It was based on a play of the same name by OrizaHirata. It was released on February 28, 2015. Kanako Momota Shiori Tamai Ayaka...
Hagen. Returning to Japan, he joined the Seinendan theatre troupe run by OrizaHirata and the Sample theatre troupe run by Shū Matsui. After appearing in many...
The Chair, in 2002. He joined the Seinendan theater troupe, headed by OrizaHirata, in 2005, and has often used their work and their actors in his films...
was premiered in 2021. In 2020, Nakahori’s first opera Zero, text by OrizaHirata, was premiered at Toyooka Theater Festival. Impronta Ensemble Composition...
ジャッジ！ Akira Nagai 2015 Sayonara さようなら Kōji Fukada Based on a play by OrizaHirata. Parasyte: Part 2 寄生獣 完結編 Takashi Yamazaki Akegarasu 明烏 Yuichi Fukuda...
"Summit" at the Komaba Agora Theater, where one of his role models, OrizaHirata served as the artistic director. His book, The End of the Special Time...
Meer Opera in one act, 90' Hannah Dübgen, after an original text by OrizaHirata in the German translation by Dorothea Gasztner 1 July 2018, Staatstheater...
other playwrights in their own generation — such as Toshiki Okada and OrizaHirata. The clear and logical structure of Nagai's plays makes it naturalistic...
Shizuoka. He is a member of group P4 of Japanese directors, (Yukikazu Kano, OrizaHirata, Satoshi Miyagi, Masahiro Yasuda). As of 2011 he was the head of the...
Theatre 2, a documentary series about a playwright/theater director OrizaHirata and his company, Seinendan. The series was world-premiered at the Busan...
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