Daisuke Miura (Tokyo)

Daisuke Miura ensures clear lines of communication by banning speech - the mother of fantasy and lies - from his plays. He and his company Potudo-ru want to document naked survival in an affluent society whose best of times are long gone. The highly-productive author and director locks some ordinary people in his Castle of Dreams. They watch television, cook noodles, drink cans of beer, play video games and have sex. The saturated boredom, the joy and despair of the homunculus living in his castle in the air becomes clearly and perceptibly strained. It looks like an apartment full of junk, not much happens behind the window. And yet what does happen is everything. There's no room for stories or feelings, maybe there is for the sound of someone placing a cigarette pack back on the table, or a toilet being flushed. For Daisuke Miura ‘words are just ways to escape’. In 2006 he won Japan's most important theatre prize, the Kunio Kushida Prize, and was the youngest director ever to do so.