Theater Project Tokyo's current, compelling double bill, "TPT Futures 2002," grapples head-on with how, as time and circumstances change, people deal with the eternally fraught business of maintaining or severing their intimate ties with others.
TPT tackles this basic but universal theme through two contemporary dramas, one Japanese and the other European, being staged separately at its Benisan Pit Studio home in Tokyo's Koto Ward. Alongside TPT's usual troupe of actors, the two productions see fresh faces both acting and directing.
"Adam & Eve -- My Criminology" is by Shuji Terayama, whose work -- encompassing plays, novels and poetry as well as directing for film and theater -- took him to the pinnacle of Japan's vibrant 1960s and '70s underground arts scene and brought him international renown, until cirrhosis ended his outlaw life in 1983, at the age of 48.