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garden bonfire (esp. one held on the imperial grounds)Oh, the chemistry .

garden bonfire (esp. one held on the imperial grounds). I was also thinking, "What if it's not interesting? But "Te" was great, and "Hickey Sotoni De Temitano" was also interesting.

rockI haven't read it properly yet , .......

garden bonfire (esp. one held on the imperial grounds)Yes . Okay, good, good.

rockI can't read books. My ability to read text is very poor. I have lived without reading books for a long time.

garden bonfire (esp. one held on the imperial grounds)But you're writing (a novel), right?

rockYes, I do. I don't like to watch theater at all, but I like to create. Have you read any books so far?

garden bonfire (esp. one held on the imperial grounds)Books of interest are.

rockOh, I see . Then you read a lot as far as quantity.

garden bonfire (esp. one held on the imperial grounds)Oh no , but I think you are biased.

rockThere are writings by people who really like books, you know . That kind of thing is not good.

garden bonfire (esp. one held on the imperial grounds)Oops .

rockNo, no, no , that's not what I meant. No , I couldn't read it simply because I didn't have enough time. What can I say, the center of gravity . I think the proper order is to put the earnestness of what you want to write into words, but if you are more concerned about decorating the earnestness than the earnestness itself, I really want to throw away your writing right away.

all of us( lol )

rockI'm really sick of it. I'm like, "Don't start singing and dancing.

garden bonfire (esp. one held on the imperial grounds)I've been really liking Tetsuwari (Albatrossket) lately. Mr. Inui followed me on Twitter. I thought it was a mistake and sent him a DM, and he said, "No, no, I read your books and I like you , too. You came to see my last performance, didn't you?" . That was the first time I heard from him. That was the first time I read Mr. Inui's book. That was really interesting. It was easy to read, with parts that were like Tetsuwari. I don't read novels.

rockWhat do you read?　What else besides novels?

garden bonfire (esp. one held on the imperial grounds)Essays, non-fiction, docs . I'm not good at making things.

rockI like Matsuo Suzuki very much, and what I like most is his essays. Yes, I can read his essays. Yes, I can read essays, that's for sure. What I wanted to ask you today is, have you ever met and talked with someone who has read your book?

garden bonfire (esp. one held on the imperial grounds)Is it a dialogue or something?

rockI wondered what kind of things he talked about with his readers, including the dialogue, as a person who lives an ordinary life.

garden bonfire (esp. one held on the imperial grounds)Eh . But, you know, it's a lot of things. . there are those who encourage me. But there are those who attack me. The most intense was when someone sent me an e-mail saying, "I used to be a great fan, but I'm glad I didn't become a mother like you. I guess that's because people only say nice things about me on talk shows.

rockAnd it's face to face.

garden bonfire (esp. one held on the imperial grounds)Oh, yeah . That one, I don't do that anymore, do I? Ego-searching.

rockHave you stopped?

garden bonfire (esp. one held on the imperial grounds)Yeah . I was scared (laughs).

rockI see. I see that . But the part where the person reacted is probably the part where anyone would react a bit, including maybe hitting a child or something.

I had been writing about myself, and I was surprised at how many people received my writings. So I decided that other people could do it, too, and I am doing a series called "We, the People" in which I gather actors and ordinary people, ask them about the worst things that have happened to them, and turn their stories into theatrical pieces.

For example, ...... I did a story in Nagasaki about a father and daughter who didn't get along very well. The daughter came to the workshop, and the father was a terrible alcoholic, and she had grown up being mounted all the time. The daughter grew up to be an adult, went out into the world, and decided to get married a while later. When she went to her parents' house to at least say hello, the father was a complete idiot and didn't even take her seriously.

."When I asked him to please come to the wedding without drinking, he looked at me like I was a man who had not been home much and was suddenly talking big, so he finally lost his temper and said something like, "I have been patient all this time. He said, "I've been patient all this time," and other things he had never said before. Then, that night, I think, he stopped coming home.

Later, when the wives in the neighborhood were having a well-wishers' meeting . . it was near the sea in Sasebo, and there is a gutter that leads to the sea. On a cold winter morning, something floated down the open part of the ditch lid. It's by the ocean, so it ebbs and flows. Something is coming and going.

."What is it? I looked and saw "Who's your father here", and they found him. So, the night of the disappearance, the security camera showed only the image of him buying a cup of wine at a convenience store. After that, I wondered if he was so inebriated that he just fell off, or if his daughter was in no small part affected by what he said. Since the other participants' stories were not that heavy, I thought, "I don't know, but I've heard it, so there's nothing I can do about it," and in a cheerful tone, I said, "Okay, then, I'll turn Aima's story into a play.

all of us(Laughter).

rock. "I'll give you 30 minutes, so make two teams. One is the team with the parties involved . The other is a team without parties." Well, both teams produced very interesting works. The fight scene was very realistic, and everyone cried, including me, but we had to be creative in the sewer scene, so the "One team" had a 16-year-old boy play the father.

So it was soooo funny, but I was worried, and when I glanced at the person who told me, he was giggling. When we went to a pub afterwards to talk, he said, "I almost couldn't tell anyone about it because I kept thinking that I had indirectly encouraged my father's death. Not that that has changed, but it was a lot of fun." He blurted out something like that. I know it's a bit of a misnomer to say, but I thought that the meaning of theater and what I do is that I can add a different meaning to those memories later on.

For example, a very young guy played the role of a father and slid desperately on the floor, or people desperately asked me how I was doing at the time, or some other experience pulled in from the outside was added, and what I had thought of as a sin became multifaceted. I feel that this is very interesting and meaningful.

For example, when we did "Te", the audience suddenly started talking about their own past. Until then, I had been thinking about how interesting it would be as a play, but the time spent thinking about the lives of people who are actually alive, who had only seen things from their own perspective, and wondering what they meant when they said those things, was a much richer experience. .

So I feel that Uemoto's book also has a very strong function of forcing the reader to reflect on his or her own life and his or her own reality in any way.

My sister once told me, "I once wanted to throw my child at the TV because he wouldn't stop crying. I thought that was a great thing to say, but it was only when I heard that that I finally realized that mothers can go to such lengths when raising children. My wife also said, "Oh, but I certainly feel that way.

I'm implicitly told not to show it, because I think "wtf?" the moment I hear about it, but I'm thinking that the time I spend thinking, "Well, why is that? Something like that ...... .

rockSo, you know, please write a lot of these (Uemoto-san's books). Really .

garden bonfire (esp. one held on the imperial grounds)Oh, I understand , sir. Ah .