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AKHE ENGINEERING THEATRE "WHITE CABIN"

Schedule
2026.10.31 Sat - 2026.11.02 Mon
Venue
Theatre West
Tickets
On Sale Aug. 8 Sat.
Tickets

A masterpiece created three decades ago by a legend of object theater
An ever-shining treasure trove of poetic and avant-garde fables

Founded in Russia in 1989, the performance collective AKHE has been cited as an influence by many contemporary object theater artists. This production features a signature work from 30 years ago by these masters of the object theater world. Using simple objects such as water, fire, paper, and cloth, the performance stimulates the audience’s senses and imagination through a series of powerful images and a poetic, allegorical, and unique staging enhanced by theatrical effects.

Having relocated their base to Europe, AKHE continues to work with great energy. Unbound by existing theatrical conventions, they persist in challenging the status quo through a sculptural and poetic theatrical language. We invite you to witness in Tokyo their way of life, in which they risk everything to embody what art can do for society.

Since its premiere in 1996, “White Cabin” has been performed around the world over the years alongside the members of AKHE. In 2026, this production will be brought to Tokyo unchanged, carrying with it the vivid chain of scenes woven within, alongside its witty, humorous sense of space and time.

Overview

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Runtime:65 MIN
Doors open 15 mins before the performance starts. Reception begins 60 mins before the performance starts

○=There will be a “Stage Explanation” for people with visual impairments (Reservation required)

アヒェ・エンジニアリング・シアターの写真/Photo of AKHE ENGINEERING THEATRE
AKHE ENGINEERING THEATRE

At the beginning there was the word AKHE. It was empty, and so it sounded and meant nothing.
Over the years word has accumulated shape, valence and specific weight.
Especially curious began to develop associations and aftertaste.
Now, 35 years later no one has any doubt that AKHE is an engineering theatre.
The word AKHE filled with meaning.
The artists who first spoke AKHE seriously consider themselves demiurgists, they consider any space to apply their powers.
Sometimes they rely on a human being, less often an actor, but more often they rely on metaphors to materialize them.
The AKHEans believe that combinations of objects have rhymes and diphyrambs, and time must be measured in space.
Within the word AKHE Maxim Isaev and Pavel Semchenko are artists and deconstructors, founding fathers and children playing with matches.
Vadim Gololobov is a former dark light separator, a recorder of the group and at the same time a surgically accurate manager.
And lots of artists from all over the world, bringing their own voice, language, eachtime leading to a new object.
One of them — Barbara Seifert, medically precise acting needle that stitches together the entire composition of the performances in which she takes part.
But the void within the word still remains…

Maksim Isaev
Pavel Semchenko
Barbara Seifert
[All seats non-reserved (with numbered entry / Tax included)]
Adult

JPY 5,000

U29s

JPY 3,000

U18s

JPY 1,000

Discount for Persons with Disabilities

10% discount from adult prices

*Children below school age will not be admitted.
* Tickets with age-based discounts are available in advance only through the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre Box Office (limited quantities available; valid ID required on the day of the performance).
* We cannot provide a refund for the difference if you are eligible for an age discount but you purchase a general admission ticket. In addition, if you purchase a discounted ticket that you are not eligible for, then you will be asked to pay the difference at the reception counter on the day of the performance.
* Visitors with a Disability Certificate or Mirairo ID can get tickets at a discounted price. Please check with the box office or the official website and check “Hello and Welcome (Attendee Support)” (https://autumnmeteorite.jp/en/2026/hello_and_welcome).
* Please contact the Box Office (0570-010-296) before purchasing a ticket if you are a wheelchair user as there is limited space within our venue.
* A hearing loop (magnetic loop) is available for some audience seats in this performance.
* Performance information and other details may be subject to change due to unavoidable circumstances.
* The reserving, buying or reselling of tickets for commercial purposes is strictly prohibited.
* We do not accept cancellations or changes once tickets have been purchased. This excludes where a performance is cancelled.
* Please be sure to check for the latest information on the official website before attending.

Music: Nick Sudnik
Sound: Denis Antonov
Light: Vadim Gololobov/Yaroslav Ushakov
Video: Alexander Kurochkin
Organizational support: Vadim Gololobov

For children aged from 3 months old to pre-elementary age
Admission fee/Capacity system/Advance reservation required (at least one week before the date of the performance)
Asuka Incorporated Company Phone: 0120-165-115 (Weekdays 9:00 to 17:00)

Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre Box Office
0570-010-296 (10:00 to 19:00 excluding days when it is closed)
Cooperation
Okinawa Palau Friendship Association
Okinawa Prefectural Peace Memorial Museum
Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage
Belau National Museum
Belau National Archives Center
National Diet Library
Japan Pacific Islands Association
Ufuzato Mission Church,The United Church of Christ in Japan
NPO Community Support Wakasa
Department of New Media,Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts
Construction Division, Naha City
Taishin Construction Co.,Ltd.