お久しぶりです。NSです。

昨日「嘘つき女・英子（ヨンジャ）」という芝居を千

石にある三百人劇場で見て来ました。

韓国・NAITE舞台芸術企画社と劇団えるむの共同製作

で文化庁の国際芸術交流支援事業です。

作・演出はふじたあさやですが、韓国の役者が韓国語

で演じ、日本語訳が舞台の両側に映し出されます。あ

らすじを紹介しますね。（公演チラシより）

ソウルの裏町、老女英子のもとを、一人の男が訪れる。
男の訪問は、忘れたい過去をよみがえらせた。

十四歳のときに、だまされて日本に連れて行かれた過

去。

従軍慰安婦にされるとわかって自殺を図ろうとし、発

見されて憲兵に犯された過去。

一日に数十人の男に身を任せた屈辱の過去。

前身を隠して虚偽の人生を生きることを余儀なくされ

た過去。

だが、日本のジャーナリストに洩らした一言が、再び

彼女の運命を変えてしまう。

従軍慰安婦の存在を認めたがらない勢力があると聞い

て、英子はみずから沈黙を破る

ことを決意する。しかし・・・。

舞台のラストに歴史の闇に葬られた慰安婦への慰霊の

儀式が行われました。

韓国語で「クッ」というそうです。舞台の一番手前に

蝋燭を二本灯し、線香のようなものにも火をつけます

。慰安婦・英子を演じた女優さんが、儀式を行うので

すが本当に美しいものでした。日本の神社の巫女さん

や神主さんの雰囲気と近く、紙で作った白いホウキよ

うなものを振って祈ります。私には彼女が舞っている

ように見えました。悲しくも美しい祈りの舞でした。

両側で二人の韓国人男性が民族楽器を奏でます。和太

鼓そっくりの楽器や、仏壇の鐘と同じような音を出す

楽器があり、韓国は日本と本当に「近い」国なのだと

改めて感じました。

反戦を強くうたっている舞台ではなかったけれど、逆

に作り手たちの想いが伝わってきました。私の隣に座

っていた（おそらく韓国出身の）女性が膝の上に「

NO WAR」と書いたスケッチブックをずっと握りしめ

ていたことが印象的でした。

Dear all,
It is a long time. This is (MS)NS.

I enjoyed The play "A Liar Woman , a YONJA" at the SANBYAKUNIN Theater in Sengoku TOKYO jp yesterday.

It is an enterprise of a support for international art exchange by the Agency for Cultural Affairs jp in collaboration of a play ERUMU team with NAITE performing-arts plan company of South Korea.

 South Korean players perform with production and direction by FUJITA ASAYA  in Korean, while Japanese translation projects it on the both sides of the stage.Let me introduce the outline.(See the performance flier) 

A man visits an old female YONJA's in the back-street district of SOUL..The visit of a man reminded her of the past to forget.

The past that she was deceived and taken toJapan at her age of 14.
The past that it was turned out that she was made a comfort woman,  going to aim at suicide, was discovered by the military policemen, and  then was raped by them.The past of the humiliation which gave herself up to dozens of men a day.
The past that she was obliged to hide past and to live false life.

But, a word leaked to the Japanese journalist by herself changes her fate again.
Hearing that there is a big influence which is unwilling to accept existence of the comfort women, YONJA decides to break silence hirself.
However, ...

The ceremony of a memorial service to the comfort women hushed up behind historical darkness was performed on the last of the stage.
It is said that it is called "KU" in Korean.Two candles are burned most before the stage and a thing like an incense stick is also fired. Although the actress who played comfort women, YONJA held the ceremony. It looked really beautiful. The atmosphere seemed just like a shrine maiden and Shinto priest of the shrine in Japan.  A thing like white broom made of white paper was shaken and prayed. It seemed to me that she was dancing. It was a dance for sad and beautiful pray.Two South Korean men played  naitive musical instruments on both sides. there were  similar musical instruments similar to Japanese drums, and a musical instrument which makes the same sound as the bell of a Buddhist altar, and so that it was thought anew that South Korea was a country which "is truly near"to Japan.

Although it was not the stage which has argued anti-war thought itself strongly, what the makers are actually thinking about has been transmitted to me rather than otherwise.It was impressive that the sketchbook written  "NO WAR" on the knee which the woman (probably from South Korea) who was sitting next to me kept being grasped tightly.

Friendly yours.