NEWS
"Are you lovin' it?"
at Colchester Fringe Festival
got 3 awards: SPRIT OF THE FRINGE,
ARTIST'S PICK and
VOLUNTEER'S PICK!
22 Oct. 2023
Photo: Colchester Fringe and Jonathan Dadds
"Are you lovin' it?"
UK Tour 2023
October 7 at Royal Manor Theatre, Portland TICKET LINK
October 14-15 at The Bread & Roses Theatre, Clapham Fringe TICKET LINK
October 19-22 at Headgate Theatre (Main Space), Colchester Fringe TICKET LINK
Winner of "Media Pick" at Edmonton Fringe 2019, Canada
★★★★★
This kooky, edgy, cartoon-like show may be the strangest show I've ever seen at the Fringe. Five stars simply for audacity and invention. - Edmonton Journal
★★★★★
This piece is so uniquely original and the performers so engaging that you probably won’t see anything else like it at this year's Fringe. - Gigcity.ca
Here is ...a company of Japanese Dadaist clowns - 12thnight.ca
The savagely surreal satire of Fast-Food Capitalism. - Orlando Weekly
The most in-your-face, Outrageous, political and subversive show. - Orlando Sentinel
Winner of "Media Pick" at Edmonton Fringe, "Patron's Pick""Blue Star's Pick" at Orlando Fringe, "Best in Fest" at San Diego Fringe, "Best in Fest" at Tampa Fringe, "Best Ensemble" at FRIGID NY.
A huge hit at fringe fests across the US and Canada. Japanese GUMBO invites you to a surreal romp with a dancing Japanese businessman, Trump, Krazy Kitty and delicious WacDonalds for all. You won't be able to stop laughing!
Written by Theatre Group GUMBO
Directed by Kayo Tamura
Cast: Kayo Tamura, Nono Miyasaka, Ryo Nishihara
Supported by The Great Britain SASAKAWA FOUNDATION
Portland
Double bill "Princess Amnesia"
VENUE: Royal Manor Theatre (138A Fortuneswell, Portland, Dorset, DT5 1LT)
SHOW DATE AND TIME (2 hours): Saturday 7th Oct 7pm
PRICE: £10
RATING: 13+
SHOW CONTAINS: Adult Themes, Strong Language, Religious Content, Political Content
Clapham Fringe
VENUE: The Bread & Roses Theatre (68 Clapham Manor Street Clapham SW4 6DZ, London)
SHOW DATES AND TIMES (60 minutes): Saturday 14th Oct 5pm, Sunday 15th Oct 5pm
PRICE: Standard £15, Concession £10
RATING: 14+
SHOW CONTAINS: Cartoonish Violence, Religious Content, Political Content
Colchester Fringe
VENUE: Headgate Theatre (Main Space) (14 Chapel St North Colchester CO2 7AT)
SHOW DATES AND TIMES (60 minutes):
Thursday 19th Oct 10pm, Saturday 21st Oct 4pm, Sunday 22nd Oct 6pm
PRICE: £8 + £1 booking fee
RATING: 12+
SHOW CONTAINS: Cartoonish Violence, Religious Content, Political Content
SOZOROGOTO presents
"Princess Amnesia"
October 20-22 at Headgate Theatre (Rehearsal Room), Colchester Fringe TICKET LINK
I'm a forgetful princess.
Is it bad to forget?
What happens if I remember who I am?
What did I forget?
In a world without love, why would I want love?
"Princess" that everyone longs for once. But I'm not Snow White, Cinderella, or Sleeping Beauty. I am a forgetful princess.
Is it bad to forget?
What happens if I remember who I am? What did I forget?
In a world without love, why would I want love?
For Princess Amnesia, forgetting is a shield that protects her from her past trauma and the complexity of society, but it also gives her despair.
Like a disjointed puzzle, her memories and emotions are deranged and she loses her identity as to who she is.
This production is based on the issues she faced, such as young carers, mental disabilities, and child neglects. However, behind this lies social issues such as discrimination and exploitation of foreign workers in Japan that her parents' generation experienced.
Princess Amnesia not only expresses the crisis of individual identity, but her figure is a mirror that reflects society, depicting the crisis of modern society.
By digging deep into her forgotten memories, audiences will experience the crisis the world's young people face across borders.
Can a person truly know themselves without the memories that shape their identity?
Is it easy to find an identity in the modern society we live in now?
Is Princess Amnesia, born of modern society, abnormal?
In a world without love, why would we want love?
This is the world premiere of this production.
Written by Theatre Group GUMBO
Directed by Kayo Tamura
Cast: Liko Takada
Colchester Fringe
VENUE: Headgate Theatre (Rehearsal Room) (14 Chapel St North Colchester CO2 7AT)
SHOW DATES AND TIMES (45 minutes):
Friday 20th Oct 8:30pm, Saturday 21st Oct 5:30pm, Sunday 22nd Oct 4:30pm
PRICE: £8 + £1 booking fee
RATING: 16+
SHOW CONTAINS: Adult Themes, Strong Language & References about Rape
"Forest Of Truth"
at Vancouver Fringe Festival
got SPIRIT OF THE FRINGE!!
17 Sep. 2023
"Forest Of Truth"
at Vancouver Fringe Festival
1 Sep. 2023
September 8 - 16 at The NEST
Winner of "Artist Pick" at Edmonton Fringe 2023,
"A veritable earthquake of passion...It’s crazy... It’s fringe-y.
Sit back and let it come at you!"
-Liz Nicholls
"Fringe Of The Fringe" and "Outstanding Comedy" at San Diego Fringe 2016.
A fantastically distorted love comedy starring human beings and their amorous lies! All the awkward aspects of love are on full display here – along with over-the-top costumes, earworm music and super-epic dance moves.
This is fun with a Japanese flavor! Go taste it!
- Adelaide Theatre Guide
This production could be described as KABUKI meets The Mikado meets Rashomon - the modern version.
- SAN DIEGO Reader
It was truly an out-of-this-world experience. I was expecting something crazy from these Osaka folks, but I didn’t expect it to be that crazy.
- TODAY For Art’s Sake!, Singapore
The hilariously distorted views of love, however, have an underlying message that will have you talking long after the performance. You’d be mad to miss it.
- Rip it up magazine
In the "Forest of Truth", its residents are waiting to reveal the lies found in the human world. One day, a Man and a Woman step into the forest and immediately they fall in love. However, the residents of the forest then reveal the hidden aspects of their hearts.
Written by Theatre Group GUMBO
Directed by Kayo Tamura
Cast: Kayo Tamura, Nono Miyasaka, Ryo Nishihara, ira cooper (Spec Theatre)
TICKET:https://www.vancouverfringe.com/events/forest-of-truth/
VENUE: The NEST (1398 Cartwright Street)
SHOW DATES AND TIMES (60 minutes):
Fri Sep 8th 10:30pm, Sat Sep 9th 4:15pm, Sun Sep 10th 12:30pm, Mon Sep 11th 5:15pm,
Thu Sep 14th 8:30pm, Sat Sep 16th 7:45pm
PRICE: $18
RATING: PG(14+)
WARNINGS: Sexual Content
"Forest Of Truth"
at Edmonton Fringe Festival
got ARTIST PICK!!
27 Aug. 2023
"Forest Of Truth"
at Edmonton Fringe Festival
9 Aug. 2023
August 18 - 27 at Venue #28 Nancy Power Theatre at the Roxy
Winner of "Fringe Of The Fringe" and "Outstanding Comedy" at San Diego Fringe 2016.
A fantastically distorted love comedy starring human beings and their amorous lies! All the awkward aspects of love are on full display here – along with over-the-top costumes, earworm music and super-epic dance moves.
This is fun with a Japanese flavor! Go taste it!
- Adelaide Theatre Guide
This production could be described as KABUKI meets The Mikado meets Rashomon - the modern version.
- SAN DIEGO Reader
It was truly an out-of-this-world experience. I was expecting something crazy from these Osaka folks, but I didn’t expect it to be that crazy.
- TODAY For Art’s Sake!, Singapore
The hilariously distorted views of love, however, have an underlying message that will have you talking long after the performance. You’d be mad to miss it.
- Rip it up magazine
In the "Forest of Truth", its residents are waiting to reveal the lies found in the human world. One day, a Man and a Woman step into the forest and immediately they fall in love. However, the residents of the forest then reveal the hidden aspects of their hearts.
Written by Theatre Group GUMBO
Directed by Kayo Tamura
Cast: Kayo Tamura, Nono Miyasaka, Ryo Nishihara, ira cooper (Spec Theatre)
TICKET: https://tickets.fringetheatre.ca/event/601:5090/
VENUE: Venue #28 - Nancy Power Theatre at the Roxy (10708 124 Street)
SHOW DATES AND TIMES (60 minutes):
Fri Aug 18th 10pm, Sat Aug 19th 6pm, Sun Aug 20th 8:30pm, Tue Aug 22nd 3pm,
Wed Aug 23rd 7pm, Thu Aug 24th 9:30pm, Fri Aug 25th 5pm, Sat Aug 26th 8:30pm,
Sun Aug 27th 5pm
PRICE: Adult $18, Student/Senior $13(including $3 fee)
RATING: PG(14+)
"Are you lovin' it?"
at Winnipeg Fringe Festival
got Jenny Awards "But Sting Told Me Love Was the 7th Wave"!!
24 July 2022
"Are you lovin' it?"
at Hollywood Fringe Festival
got Combined Artform & Fringe Management's HFF22 PICK OF THE FRINGE!
18 June 2022
"Are you lovin' it?"
at Hollywood Fringe Festival
13 June 2022
WacDonalds Land is finally HERE in Hollywood!
★★★★★
This kooky, edgy, cartoon-like show may be the strangest show I've ever seen at the Fringe. Five stars simply for audacity and invention. - Edmonton Journal
★★★★★
This piece is so uniquely original and the performers so engaging that you probably won’t see anything else like it at this year’s Fringe. - Gigcity.ca
Here is ...a company of Japanese Dadaist clowns - 12thnight.ca
The most in-your-face, Outrageous, political and subversive show. - Orlando Sentinel
The savagely surreal satire of Fast-Food Capitalism. - Orlando Weekly
Winner of "Media Pick" at Edmonton Fringe, "Black Venue Blue Star’s Pick" at Orlando Fringe, "Outstanding Comedy" at San Diego Fringe, "Best in Fest" at Tampa Fringe, "Best Ensemble" at FRIGID NY.
A huge hit at fringe fests across the US and Canada. Japanese GUMBO invites you to a surreal romp with dancing Japanese businessmen, Trump, Krazy Kitty and delicious WacDonalds for all. You won't be able to stop laughing!
Written by Theatre Group GUMBO
Directed by Kayo Tamura
Cast: Kayo Tamura, Nono Miyasaka, Ryo Nishihara
TICKET LINK: https://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/7606
VENUE: Asylum @ McCadden Theatre.(1157 N. McCadden Place, Los Angeles, CA 90038)
SHOW DATES AND TIMES (60 minutes): Two Shows ONLY!!
Sat June 18th 12:30pm
Sun June 19th 9:00pm
PRICE: $15
RATING: 13 & Up
"Are you lovin' it?"
at San Diego Fringe Festival
got BEST Of FEST and Audience Favorite Awards!!
12 June 2022
"Are you lovin' it?"
at San Diego Fringe Festival
31 May 2022
The WINNER of "Outstanding Comedy 2017" & "Artists’ Pick 2017" is BACK!
★★★★★
This kooky, edgy, cartoon-like show may be the strangest show I've ever seen at the Fringe. Five stars simply for audacity and invention. - Edmonton Journal
★★★★★
This piece is so uniquely original and the performers so engaging that you probably won’t see anything else like it at this year’s Fringe. - Gigcity.ca
Here is ...a company of Japanese Dadaist clowns - 12thnight.ca
The most in-your-face, Outrageous, political and subversive show. - Orlando Sentinel
The savagely surreal satire of Fast-Food Capitalism. - Orlando Weekly
Winner of "Media Pick" at Edmonton Fringe, "Black Venue Blue Star’s Pick" at Orlando Fringe, "Outstanding Comedy" at San Diego Fringe, "Best in Fest" at Tampa Fringe, "Best Ensemble" at FRIGID NY.
A huge hit at fringe fests across the US and Canada. Japanese GUMBO invites you to a surreal romp with dancing Japanese businessmen, Trump, Krazy Kitty and delicious WacDonalds for all. You won't be able to stop laughing!
Written by Theatre Group GUMBO
Directed by Kayo Tamura
Cast: Kayo Tamura, Nono Miyasaka, Ryo Nishihara
TICKET LINK: https://sdfringe.org/events/are-you-lovin-it/
VENUE: Marie Hitchcock Puppet Theatre (2130 Pan American Road, CA)
SHOW DATES AND TIMES (60 minutes):
2 June 6.00pm
4 June 9.00pm
7 June 7.30pm
9 June 9.00pm
11 June 6.00pm
PRICE: $10
RATING: 13 & Up
"Are you lovin' it?"
at Orlando Fringe Festival
got PATRON'S PICK!!
30 May 2022
"Are you lovin' it?"
at Orlando Fringe Festival
18 May 2022
Winner of "Black Venue Blue Star’s Pick 2019" is BACK!
The most in-your-face, Outrageous, political and subversive show. - Orlando Sentinel
The savagely surreal satire of Fast-Food Capitalism. - Orlando Weekly
★★★★★
This kooky, edgy, cartoon-like show may be the strangest show I've ever seen at the Fringe. Five stars simply for audacity and invention. - Edmonton Journal
★★★★★
This piece is so uniquely original and the performers so engaging that you probably won’t see anything else like it at this year’s Fringe. - Gigcity.ca
Here is ...a company of Japanese Dadaist clowns - 12thnight.ca
Winner of "Black Venue Blue Star’s Pick" at Orlando Fringe, "Media Pick" at Edmonton Fringe, "Outstanding Comedy" at San Diego Fringe, "Best in Fest" at Tampa Fringe, "Best Ensemble" at FRIGID NY.
A huge hit at fringe fests across the US and Canada. Japanese GUMBO invites you to a surreal romp with dancing Japanese businessmen, Trump, Krazy Kitty and delicious WacDonalds for all. You won't be able to stop laughing!
Written by Theatre Group GUMBO
Directed by Kayo Tamura
Cast: Ryuto Adamson, Kayo Tamura, Nono Miyasaka, Ryo Nishihara
TICKET LINK: https://virtuallyfringe.com/.../show/210643/Are-You-Lovin-It
VENUE: PINK Venue
SHOW DATES AND TIMES (60 minutes):
Thu May 19th 6:15pm
Sat May 21st 2:05pm
Sun May 22nd 4:45pm
Wed May 25th 7:55pm
Fri May 27th 7:25pm
Sat May 28th 8:35pm
Sun May 29th 2:25pm
PRICE: $15. Festival button required for entrance to all shows.
RATING: 13 & Up
Staff Choice & Best Ensemble Awards!!
at FRIGID Festival, NYC
06 March 2022
We have received 2 great awards.
Staff Choice & Best Ensemble awards!!
Thank you so much, Wonderful Audience, Staff and Artists!!
Thank you for all people meeting here.
We'll be back in NYC soon!
"Are you lovin' it?"
at FRIGID Festival, NYC
20 Feb 2022
Winner of "Media Pick" at Edmonton Fringe, "BEST in Fest" at Tampa Fringe. A huge hit at fringe fests across the US and Canada. Japanese GUMBO invites you to a surreal romp with dancing Japanese businessmen, Krazy Kitty and delicious WacDonalds for all. You won't be able to stop laughing!
Wed, Feb 23rd at 7pm
Sat, Feb 26th 4:45pm
Mon, Feb 28th 7pm
Tue, March 1st 8:45pm
Thu, March 3rd 8:45pm
Sat, March 5th 3pm
Sun, March 6th 4:45pm
Tickets $20 (Discounted Price: $18)
"MIND EATER" at Orlando Fringe Festival
20 May 2021
"★★★★★Brilliant! One of the zaniest, wickedest, funniest things this year! MUST SEE!! – talkfringe
MIND EATER is being revived especially for presentation at this years' Orlando Fringe.
The powerful performance is characterized by Gumbo's trademark grotesque yet simple stage art, colourful and imaginative costumes and powerful music. Full of dark humour, the piece throws truth and lies into focus and begs you to consider "what is human life?"
13 & Up - Sexual Content
60 Minutes
The performance on Sunday, May 30th at 9:45pm will have ASL Interpretation available.
This performance is part of the 2021 Orlando Fringe Theater Festival. A 2021 Festival Button AND a show ticket are required for entry to the performance.
"Are you lovin' it?"
in Sakai International Fringe Festival
21 March 2021
Each theatre festival highly praised! "Are you lovin' it?", which swept the "Audience Award" and the "Highest Award", is coming to Japan! (Comedy play in English)
★★★★★
This kooky, edgy, cartoon-like show may be the strangest show I've ever seen at the Fringe. Five stars simply for audacity and invention.
- Roger Levesque, Edmonton Journal
★★★★★
This piece is so uniquely original and the performers so engaging that you probably won’t see anything else like it at this year’s Fringe.
- Derek Owen, Gigcity.ca
Gumbo Theatre of Osaka, Japan rocks in this wacky spoof of western culture in a mad cap, physical, scatological comedy that is distinctly Japanese. A huge hit at fringe fests across the US and Canada. Take a Japanese TV game show, mix in anime, take on Trump, Krazy Kitty and over eager Japanese "businessman". It's hard to compare as there is nothing else like it!
Dates:
10 April 2021 14:30
11 April 2021 18:00
Venue: SPinniNG MiLL https://www.spinningmill.info/
Tickets:
adult 2000 yen / primary school 1000 yen
When you buy your tickets, let us know your (1)name (2)age (3)address (4)phone number (5)April 10 or April 11 (6)required number of tickets
tel/090-1225-7915
e-mail/ sksg2019@gmail.com
Sakai Fringe Homepage https://sksg2019.wixsite.com/sakaifringe
"Peaceful Hospital" will be screened at Orlando Fringe Winter Mini-Fest!
3 Jan. 2021
"Peaceful Hospital," which was performed in Sakai last year, will be filmed and edited, and will finally be screened at Orlando Fringe Winter Mini-Fest on January 8th.
In addition, it will be available online from January 7th to 14th. Tickets are on sale for US$10. Thank you!
SICA + GUMBO
"Peaceful Hospital"
in Sakai 27 Sep.
23 Sep. 2020
Welcome! To Peaceful Hospital! “Peaceful Hospital” is a small hospital with the best doctors and nurses. However, they are actually vampires. One day, two patients are brought to the hospital. This will initiate a plan for realising the vampires’ long awaited dream..... “Peaceful Hospital” will ask you questions “What is human quality?” This work has been collaborating with actors, staff and musicians from many countries. The production, which uses 2 languages and incorporates songs, dance, and live music, has got good reviews by a wide range of people in each country. "Peaceful Hospital" is a comedy by Sakai International Community Arts and Theatre Group GUMBO. Please come to the theater and enjoy the show! Foreign nationals will be invited free of charge (If you are interested, please contact us for more information.)
*This show will be performed in Japanese and English with subtitles.
Tickets now on sale!
Fringe that Never Was
at Edmonton Fringe
17 Aug. 2020
GUMBO participates in the make-up show of "Fringe that Never Was" at Edmonton International Fringe Theater Festival. Buying a fake show ticket is a Donation to Fringe. It is a project of a very genius idea.
https://tickets.fringetheatre.ca/event/601:3406/
GUMBO applied the illusory show "CIRQUE DU SUMO". But it's not fake that I trained with other SUMO wrestlers every day in dream. Buy a ticket!
Fringe Today
Orlando Sentinel
Best of the Fest!
31 May 2020
At the Orlando International Fringe Festival "Fringe Today", which was held online due to COVID-19 infection, we received the "Best of the Fest" from the Orlando Sentinel! I would like to thank our co-star Lindsay Taylor. Thank you so much!
Winnipeg Fringe Festival was canceled
17 Apr. 2020
Theatre Group GUMBO presents "Are You Lovin’ it?" in Winnipeg Fringe Festival was canceled due to the spread of COVID-19 infection.
Orlando Fringe Festival was canceled
25 March 2020
Theatre Group GUMBO presents "Will You Swear Your True Love?" in Orlando Fringe Festival was canceled due to the spread of COVID-19 infection.
Manila Tour was postponed
8 March 2020
Sakai International Community Arts "Tea room on the Border" Manila Tour that GUMBO joined in March 2020 was postponed. Because theatre close and city lockdown due to the spread of COVID-19 infection. It was The postponement dates has not been decided, but will be announced once it is decided.
Edmonton Fringe Festival
Critics' Choice Media Pick
25 Aug. 2019
At the 2019 Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival, we won "Critics' Choice Media Pick". At Edmonton Fringe Festival, there are only 5 awards for all 258 groups.We were very surprised to have been selected as one of the 5. Thank you so much, everyone!
Orlando Fringe Festival
Black Venue BlueStar's Pick
27 May 2019
At the 2019 Orlando International Fringe Festival, we won "Black Venue BlueStar's Pick". Thank you so much, Blue Star and The Venue staff!
Tampa Fringe Festival
Best in Fest Award
12 May 2018
At the 2018 Tampa International Fringe Festival, we won "Best in Fest Award" and "Tech Choice Award HCC Studio". Thank you so much, everyone!
photo: Tetsuya Fuchigami
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San Diego Fringe Festival
Artists' Pick Award & Outstanding Comedy
2 Jul. 2017
At the 2017 San Diego International Fringe Festival, we won "Artists' Pick Award" and "Outstanding Comedy". Thank you so much, everyone!
photo: Sue Brenner
NEWS
"Forest Of Truth"
at Vancouver Fringe Festival
1 Sep. 2023
September 8 - 16 at The NEST
Winner of "Artist Pick" at Edmonton Fringe 2023,
"Fringe Of The Fringe" and "Outstanding Comedy" at San Diego Fringe 2016.
A fantastically distorted love comedy starring human beings and their amorous lies! All the awkward aspects of love are on full display here – along with over-the-top costumes, earworm music and super-epic dance moves.
This is fun with a Japanese flavor! Go taste it!
- Adelaide Theatre Guide
This production could be described as KABUKI meets The Mikado meets Rashomon - the modern version.
- SAN DIEGO Reader
It was truly an out-of-this-world experience. I was expecting something crazy from these Osaka folks, but I didn’t expect it to be that crazy.
- TODAY For Art’s Sake!, Singapore
The hilariously distorted views of love, however, have an underlying message that will have you talking long after the performance. You’d be mad to miss it.
- Rip it up magazine
In the "Forest of Truth", its residents are waiting to reveal the lies found in the human world. One day, a Man and a Woman step into the forest and immediately they fall in love. However, the residents of the forest then reveal the hidden aspects of their hearts.
Written by Theatre Group GUMBO
Directed by Kayo Tamura
Cast: Kayo Tamura, Nono Miyasaka, Ryo Nishihara, ira cooper (Spec Theatre)
TICKET:https://www.vancouverfringe.com/events/forest-of-truth/
VENUE: The NEST (1398 Cartwright Street)
SHOW DATES AND TIMES (60 minutes):
Fri Sep 8th 10:30pm, Sat Sep 9th 4:15pm, Sun Sep 10th 12:30pm, Mon Sep 11th 5:15pm,
Thu Sep 14th 8:30pm, Sat Sep 16th 7:45pm
PRICE: $18
RATING: PG(14+)
WARNINGS: Sexual Content