If you're so busy wondering how to spend the upcoming Golden Week holiday that you can hardly sleep, why not simply go and enjoy the TACT/Festival at TMET (Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre) in Ikebukuro — where you can count sheep, too, if you want.
Following "L'immediat" ("Immediate") — his hugely enjoyable, mind-blowing program at last year's festival that featured woman's bodies floating in the air and acrobatic performers running through huge piles of collapsing junk — French choreographer, director and performer Camille Boitel returns this time with his partner, French actress Claire Ruffin, to serve up their smash-hit 2013 program of delights, "L'insomnante" ("Insomnia").
Inspired by Ruffin's real-life sleep problem, the pair created this beautiful, humorous and imaginative 60-minute work in which the heroine (Ruffin) strives to fall asleep on a gorgeous bed — but can't, even though a singer-cellist disguised as a room light plays sweet music and someone (Boitel) keeps on dropping silky pillows from high above.