Program
AKHE Workshop "Instructions for well-tempered mistakes”
Dates: October 21st (Wednesday), 2026 - October 25th (Sunday)
How is poetry made from objects? Let's open up the Japanese object theater scene together, starting here.
A poetic and experimental workshop by AKHE, a legendary object theater company. Over five days, participants will engage with space, objects, and imagination through a variety of exercises aimed at creating a stage piece, culminating in a public presentation on the final day. The starting points are themes that are familiar yet profound — proverbs, sayings, anniversaries, and the four elements. The list of objects to be used is extensive; some examples include: 10–15 large books, 20–30 large nails, several hammers, a handsaw, a screwdriver/screws/drill, fifteen 2–3m boards, rope, bottles and glasses, 2–3kg each of beans/kidney beans/rice, baby powder, and 15 boxes of matches. Come dive into the world of the poetry of objects!
Dates
October 21st (Wednesday), 2026 - October 25th (Sunday)
Schedule
Schedule (5 Sessions)
Wed Oct 21, 11:00am – 12:00pm (Public Lecture) / 12:00pm – 6:00pm (Workshop Session 1)
Thu Oct 22, 11:00am – 5:00pm (Workshop Session 2)
Fri Oct 23, 11:00am – 5:00pm (Workshop Session 3)
Sat Oct 24, 11:00am – 5:00pm (Workshop Session 4)
Sun Oct 25, 10:00am – 5:00pm (Workshop Session 5) / 6:00pm – 8:00pm (Presentation)
[Public Lecture]
A talk about the background of White Cabin and AKHE’s current activities.
Date: Wed Oct 21, 11:00am–12:00pm (Free admission / No reservation required)
Venue: Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre (Gallery 1)
Language: Russian and Japanese (consecutive Japanese interpretation provided)
Speakers: AKHE
Interviewer: Yoko Yamaguchi (Curator, Object Theatre, Performing Arts Festival: Autumn Meteorite 2026 Tokyo)
Interpreter & Interviewer: Yoko Ueda (Scholar of Russian Literature, Representative of Genron)
[Final Presentation]
Date/Time: Sat Oct 25, 6:00pm–8:00pm (Free admission / Reservation required)
Venue: Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre (Gallery 1)
Reservation for viewing: Click here
Venue
Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre (Gallery 1)
Performance Language: Russian (consecutive Japanese interpretation provided)
Ticket Information
[WS Fee / Tax included]
Adult: JPY 10,000
U29s: JPY 6,000
Discount for Persons with Disabilities: 10% discount from the adult price
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Profile

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 Maksim 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…
https://akhe.org/
Manifesto
Facilitator:
Maksim Isaev
Pavel Semchenko
Vadim Gololobov
Workshop Participants:
Atatamaru, Katsuhito Amano, Mina Isozaki, Shunya Imamura, Kentaro Otsuka, Momoka Kihara, Fumi Gotou, Chiharu Shinoda, Ikuko Sekita, Ivy Sun, Daiki, CHEEKY!, Nobuhiko Tokunaga, Yuta Nakajima, Rom Hashimoto, Yoshihiro Fujita, Naname Maeda, Yota Maeda, Eri Matsui, Ami Mizuno, Yuji Murakami, Noriaki Mori, Saya Yamamoto, Hiroko Wakasa
Interpreter: Yoko Ueda
<Performing Arts Festival: Autumn Meteorite 2026 Tokyo>
Production Coordinator: Aya Komori (bench), Satoko Shibata
Production Cooperation: Sayuri Fujii (bench)
Production Assistant: Aika Mizushima

Inquiries
Tokyo Festival Executive Committee Office
TEL: +81 -3-6812-1663 (Weekdays (except venue holidays) 11:00am - 5:00pm)
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