Written by Tatsushi Yamawaki: A Stage Play Created Together by Deaf and Hearing People
Team Crescent's 8th performance 'When We Start Walking', a play about the birth of Japan's first sign language circle, will run from June 18-22, 2026. Tickets go on sale April 11.
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**Team Crescent's 8th performance 'When We Start Walking' will be performed from Thursday, June 18 to Monday, June 22, 2026, at Theater Green BASE THEATER (2-20-4 Minami-Ikebukuro, Toshima-ku). Tickets will be available for purchase starting at 10:00 AM on Saturday, April 11 via Confetti (Operated by Longrun Planning Co., Ltd., Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, CEO: Hiroyoshi Kurematsu).**
[On sale from 10:00 AM on Sat, 4/11]
Official Homepage
https://www.teamcrescent.com
**Script: Tatsushi Yamawaki
Supervision: Asaya Fujita
Direction: Miho Katayama (Team Crescent) / Saori Yamada (Team Crescent)**
The prequel spin-off to 'Can you hear my voice'!
~The story of the birth of Japan's first sign language circle in 1963~
We will perform 'When We Start Walking'—a prequel spin-off to the 29th OMS Playwright Award grand prize winner 'Can you hear my voice' written by Tatsushi Yamawaki, staged last September—as the second installment in our series themed around deaf people.
With the passage of the Sign Language Policy Promotion Act in 2025 and the holding of the first Deaflympics in Japan in November of the same year, strides toward a communication environment accessible to everyone are clearly spreading throughout society.
This work, 'When We Start Walking', is a drama based on a true story, featuring a nursing student who launched Japan's first sign language circle, 'Mimizuku', as the protagonist.
It carefully depicts the process of 'voiceless voices' taking shape as she learns sign language, meets companions, and faces the walls of society.
By exposing audiences to sign language as a living language through theater, we aim to contribute to the elimination of discrimination and prejudice and to help realize a coexistent society.
[On sale from 10:00 AM on Sat, 4/11]
Official Homepage
https://www.teamcrescent.com
**Script: Tatsushi Yamawaki
Supervision: Asaya Fujita
Direction: Miho Katayama (Team Crescent) / Saori Yamada (Team Crescent)**
The prequel spin-off to 'Can you hear my voice'!
~The story of the birth of Japan's first sign language circle in 1963~
We will perform 'When We Start Walking'—a prequel spin-off to the 29th OMS Playwright Award grand prize winner 'Can you hear my voice' written by Tatsushi Yamawaki, staged last September—as the second installment in our series themed around deaf people.
With the passage of the Sign Language Policy Promotion Act in 2025 and the holding of the first Deaflympics in Japan in November of the same year, strides toward a communication environment accessible to everyone are clearly spreading throughout society.
This work, 'When We Start Walking', is a drama based on a true story, featuring a nursing student who launched Japan's first sign language circle, 'Mimizuku', as the protagonist.
It carefully depicts the process of 'voiceless voices' taking shape as she learns sign language, meets companions, and faces the walls of society.
By exposing audiences to sign language as a living language through theater, we aim to contribute to the elimination of discrimination and prejudice and to help realize a coexistent society.