[SEKITA IKUKO] Profile 

A theater unit SEKITA IKUKO was established in 2019.

It advocates “wide-angle lens theater” in which the actors' bodies and the walls and floors of the theater have equal value for the audience, creating theatrical works as the practice of this philosophy.

In 2023,“macro wave”won both the Grand Prize and Audience Award at the “Kanagawa Short Drama Award 2023.”

“Wide-angle lens theater”

“Wide-angle lens theater” aims to treat the actors' bodies and the walls and floors of the theater with equal weight for the audience. In order to do so, it attempts to create theatrical works that deconstruct the distance between people and objects defined with its usefulness in daily life, as well as the law of perspective towards objects, and develop new perceptions of experiencing theatre for the audience. 

We believe the new perceptions gained by the audience are applied not limited to the theater experience but are expected to serve as an opportunity to reflect on the “value judgments” that are deeply embedded in our daily life.

Essay by Ikuko Sekita as an introduction to SEKITA IKUKO's methodology

[Theatre is “Embarrassing”]