Hanjo (A summer fan) MITEM

Under the visionary direction of Mattia Sebastian Giorgetti, multifaceted artist and associate

director of the SCOT Suzuki Company of Toga, Hanjo comes to life in a fusion of tradition and innovation. Giorgetti, known for his ability to intertwine classical elements with contemporary sensibilities, brings to the stage the tormented wait of a young artist, exploring themes of love, identity and madness with a disarming delicacy. Without limiting himself to telling a story, Mishima's text invites us to explore the deepest and most controversial folds of the human soul. Written by Mishima in 1955, Hanjo is based on a 14th-century Noh play by Motohiko Zeami, itself based on an ancient Chinese poem in which a discarded woman is described as a “hanjo,” a summer fan, who is thrown away in the fall.

"All the faces of men are dead". This is how Hanako describes the people she sees every day

coming out of the train station. A place she frequents with a single purpose, to wait. The fan that she holds in her arms, a symbol of prosperity, becomes in this messiah scene a hypothetical and unrepresentable representation on the stage in an objective manner of love in its purest form, in waiting; a possible love but whose beauty is based on pure contemplation. Enchantingly enigmatic, subtle and beautiful, Mishima's masterpiece reaches back into the deep past of ancient myth and brings into the modern world a story that is part fairytale and part surreal drama.