StoneCrabs and Busu Theatre met in Tokyo in 2019 over a series of creative workshops which launched a collaboration between them that explored the themes of connection and isolation. Little did we know that the world would be hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. The artists continued (however challenging) to meet over conference calls, exploring various creatives avenues to deliver the project.

We hoped that in 2020 – and then in 2021 - we would be travelling to our respective countries to continue our live performance exchange, and producing an international pilot performance to be shared with both UK and Japan audiences.

Thus H.D.A (work in progress) was born: When a theatre company gets hired to perform an international version of Beckett’s Waiting For Godot, the producer is nowhere to be seen, the director disappears and Beckett’s theatre hero status is challenged when the actors find out that the Beckett estate won’t allow women to perform the piece. What else could go wrong? An absurd comedy about loneliness, and the search for truth and self-love in an ultra-connected world. A play within a play with a pandemic in-between.

H.D.A (work in progress) is an online hybrid (recorded and streamed) experience shared in a Zoom webinar, where you will be able to peek into the work and see highlights of what we now hope to bring to you as a live performance in 2022.

19 August 7pm (UK) / 3am (Japan)

21 August 7pm (Japan) / 11am (UK)

Tickets £10

This is an online event in English and Japanese.

Filmed at OMEGA TOKYO and Nelville Studio (Nottingham Playhouse) UK.

With thanks to the support of ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND | LONDONSCHOOL TRUST and SYLVIA WADDILOVE

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