Toshiki Okada

Acompañando a las frases rotas se encuentra el lenguaje corporal físico de los intérpretes, compuesto por movimientos inconexos y abstractos que combinan gestos pedestres aislados.

Okada first started writing in a hyperrealistic style with Behold Their Hopes! (彼等の希望に瞠れ , Karera no kibō ni mihare) in 2001, and he started choreographing his plays with Five Days in March (三月の5日間 , Sangatsu no itsukakan) in 2005. He received his first award, Yokohama Cultural Award / Yokohama Award for Art and Cultural Encouragement in 2005. In the same year, Five Days in March, a play that juxtaposes a couple spending five days in a love hotel against the beginning of the Iraq War, won the 49th Kishida Prize for Drama. Air Conditioner (クーラー , Kūrā) was a finalist at the 2005 Toyota Choreography Awards. In 2006, Okada participated as the representative for Japan in the Stuecke '06/International Literature Project in Mülheim, Germany during the 2006 FIFA World Cup. In December 2006, Enjoy (エンジョイ , Enjoi) was presented at the New National Theatre Tokyo. In contrast to his international acclaim, Enjoy was not well received by Japanese theater critics, who voted the play as the year's worst play. Between 2006 and 2007, he was appointed the director of the Performing Arts Festival "Summit" at the Komaba Agora Theater, where one of his role models, Oriza Hirata served as the artistic director. His book, The End of the Special Time We Were Allowed (わたしたちに許された特別な時間の終わり , Watashitachi ni yurusareta tokubetsu na jikan no owari) , was published in February 2007 and consisted of two novels. One is a reworking of his play Five Days in March; the other, an earlier piece, is called Our Many Places (わたしの場所の複数 , Watashitachi no basho no fukusū) . The book received the 2008 Ōe Kenzaburō Prize. In 2015, Okada was nominated for the 28th Mishima Yukio Prize for his novel adaptation of his play, Current Location (現在地 , Genzaichi) , which was first staged at the Kanagawa Arts Theatre on April 20, 2012.

Además de dirigir sus propias obras, también ha dirigido Cascando de Samuel Beckett para el Festival Internacional de las Artes de Tokio y el Festival Conmemorativo del Centenario de Beckett, y Friends de Kōbō Abe en el Teatro Público de Setagaya.

Okada hizo su debut en Estados Unidos en 2009 con una gira por siete ciudades de Five Days in March.

Okada constantemente implementa temas contemporáneos y estilos de discurso en su texto.

Okada's first overseas activity was his re-staging of Five Days in March at the Kunsten Festival des Arts in Brussels, Belgium in 2007. Since then, he has been invited to other festivals such as the Vienna Art Week in Vienna and Festival d'Automne à Paris in Paris. Those collaborations led to the creation of Freetime (フリータイム , Furītaimu) in March 2008. In October 2009, Hot Pepper, Air Conditioner, and the Farewell Speech (ホットペッパー、クーラー、そしてお別れの挨拶 , Hottopeppā, kūrā, soshite, owakare no aisatsu) , which was co-produced by Hebbel am Ufer, premiered in Berlin. In 2013, Okada collaborated with Hebbel am Ufer again to produce Ground and Floor, which had its premiere in Kunsten Festival des Arts in Brussels along with an eight-country European tour. In 2014, Okada was invited to present Super Premium Soft Double Vanilla Rich (スーパープレミアムソフトWバニラリッチ , Sūpā puremiamu sofuto W banira ricchi) at the Theater der Welt festival in Mannheim, Germany. The play explores Japan's consumerism culture by introducing characters who have different perspectives pertaining to konbini or Japanese convenient stores, whose numbers have increased since the 1970s. His newest work, God Bless Baseball is set to premiere in Gwangju, Korea for the Asian Arts Theatre Festival in September 2015. chelfitsch has also toured Seoul, Cardiff, Salzburg, Singapore, Seattle, Vancouver, and other cities.

En 1997, Okada formó la compañía teatral chelfitsch en colaboración con la bailarina Natsuko Tezuka.

Las obras de Okada representan la "generación perdida", la generación más afectada por la recesión japonesa de la década de 1990.

Toshiki Okada (岡田 利規, Okada Toshiki, nacido el 3 de julio de 1973) es un dramaturgo, director de teatro, novelista y fundador de la compañía teatral chelfitsch japonés.

Nacido en Yokohama en 1973, Okada asistió allí a la escuela primaria y secundaria Nagatadai.