Stage Play is one of the toughest forms of acting. There are no retakes, no graphics or animations, or even body doubles. There is no room for mistakes. The actors have one shot.
One shot to prove their worth and give a good show to the audience. The actors who get into stage play have to be extremely talented and have to work and train hard. They need to remember difficult lines and complicated scenes.
They need to be emotionally hardened because they are going to face criticism and take it head-on live while acting. Performing in front of a live audience is not everyone’s cup of tea.
Stage plays are diminishing nowadays because people are more into films that show dramatic slow-motion action scenes or show amazing sci-fi scenes using CGI. Also, the quality of the acting has deteriorated a lot over the years in stage plays.
Even after all this, this form of entertainment stands tall as the oldest and the purest form of acting. Stage Play fans and Act-age have some good news headed their way.
The 26th issue of this year’s Weekly Shonen Jump by Shueisha revealed on Monday, 1st June that the Act-age manga is going to inspire a stage play that is going to premiere sometime in 2022.
The magazine had already teased in its 25th issue that the next issue would have a new important project announcement for the manga.
The play is going to be directed by Shu Matsui. The Stageplay staff at Hori Pro are going to conduct a countrywide “remote audition” for Kei Yonagi, the protagonist.
About Act-Age
The manga penned by Tatsuya Matsuki and illustrated by Shiro Usazaki first debuted in Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in the January issue of 2018. The English release is taken care of by Viz Media. They have been publishing the manga digitally and regularly since December 2018.
The protagonist of the story is a high school student by the name of Kei Yonagi. She lives alone with two younger siblings; their mother passed away, and their father left them.
Kei aspires to be a top-class actress someday but finds it difficult to find her break into the acting world. It’s not that she can’t act, but she acts too well. The problem with her acting is that she loses track of reality when she starts acting. She has an extreme talent for method acting.
Most people say that acting of this intensity could lead to self-destructivity, which is why they give while rejecting her at auditions. However, the highly acclaimed director Sumiji Kuroyama notices Kei’s talent and decides to help her get her lucky break.
Source: Weekly Shonen Jump issue 26
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