28 Hours 01 Min
By Shoko Matsumura, translated by Sayuri Suzuki
The Royal Court in collaboration with The New National Theatre Tokyo, 2023
28 Hours 01 Min is an absurd satire exploring pregnancy and expectations of motherhood in contemporary Japan. The piece was developed as part of a writers group run by the New National Theatre Tokyo and the Royal Court, and presented at the Royal Court as a rehearsed reading as part of ‘New Plays: Japan’.