Gundam for theater fans
Mainichi Mantan Web has a write-up about the fourth public
appearance of Gekidan Gundam, an
Osaka-based theatrical troupe who do short skits, live
storytelling, and music performances based on Mobile Suit Gundam.
The group, self-described as "For fans of the theater who don't
know Gundam, for Gundam fans who don't know theater", has had their
shows attended by Yoshiyuki Tomino and novelist Harutoshi
Fukui.
Their most recent performance featured a skit (pictured in the
article) in which female actors portrayed the Bits of the mobile
armor Elmeth as well as a parody of Seven Samurai entitled "The
Beak Of The Grabro", about seven soldiers hired to protect a
village being harassed by Zeon remnants. Minamihankyu Kyokudo, who
performs his routine from on top of a Dodai YS-shaped platform,
says he began doing Gundam kodan (traditional Japanese style of
storytelling) so he could expose young people to the kodan
tradition and that he wants to try doing kodan based on
videogames.
A digest video of
one of their shows can be seen on Minamihankyu's Youtube
channel.
From Gunota