Theater Review: Metrons 10th Performance 'An Accident, an Incident, or a Class Reunion?'

Metrons is a theater team consisting of Shizuru, Rice, Sarugorilla, and director Motoki Nakamura.

I'm writing this because having this kind of 'explanatory dialogue' makes the subject easier to understand, and in my case, if I read this text 20 years from now, I might wonder, 'What was Metrons again?'

It was a play with very little of that kind of 'explanatory dialogue.' That is why an aftertaste, or perhaps 'laughter,' remains after watching it.

Yokoyama arrives first at the inn where he is staying with his friends. He thinks about hiding in the room to surprise them, but while looking for a hiding spot, he falls from the second floor.
As his friends arrive at the inn, a detective appears and declares, 'The culprit is among you'—

First of all, everyone's acting was excellent. Akabane from Sarugorilla was so perfectly cast that I almost suspected he was doing a detective drama on a regular basis.

This work doesn't have a neat 'everything is resolved!' ending, but that's what makes it interesting.

For example, Masami, the beautiful landlady of the inn, is a person full of a sense of justice, but during the play, she commits an act that is generally considered a crime.

Perhaps she is feigning justice to hide that act, or perhaps she believes that a crime only exists upon 'observation,' that is, when one is caught.
Therefore, she might have done the same thing in the past. There is a passage in the play that could be taken as a hint of this.

In this way, there was a strange depth to it, suggesting it wasn't just about the laughter presented right in front of you.
Just as Yokoyama tried to find a hiding spot, this work has places for laughter hidden within it.

That is why, even after the stage performance ended, I found myself thinking about what that was all about, chuckling to myself, and if I had been watching with someone, we would have gotten excited talking about things like, 'I bet that's what happened after that,' or 'I bet something like that happened in the past.' It was a work where the aftertaste never really ends.