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Sifa 2023: Toshiki Okada’s New-Illusion a theatre experiment without actors
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New-Illusion, which shows at the Singapore International Festival of Arts, is a theatre experience without live actors.
PHOTO: RYOHEI TOMITA
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SINGAPORE – Can you really call it theatre if there are no actors on stage? Toshiki Okada believes so.
Since 2018, the avant-garde Japanese theatremaker has been innovating a form of drama that empties the stage of people, sets and just about anything audiences associate with theatre.
