長屋の親子

対象:一般向け ／ 時間:70〜80分

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扉は、台詞ひとつで開く。

長屋の灯が、心を結ぶ。

With a single line, the door opens.

The nagaya's lamplight ties hearts.

【あらすじ】

江戸・川町の長屋。

偏屈と噂の傘張り職人・源兵衛の隣に、旅の大工・佐吉と女房おゆう、芝居好きの娘おちえが越してくる。大家に「関わるな」と言われながらも、おちえは台詞ひとつをきっかけに、頑なな老人の扉をこじ開ける。

やがて源兵衛は一人芝居「外郎売」を約し、長屋も髪結い・寺子屋・大工が腕を持ち寄って“長屋一座”を結成——目指すは「白浪四人男」。

暮らしの貧しさも胸の不安も、稽古場の笑いに溶けていく。

雨の気配が近づく夜、番傘がひらき、路地が舞台に変わる。過去に背を向けてきた男と、明日をまっすぐ見つめる子——長屋の灯が、人と人をもう一度つなぎ直す。

Edo—Kawamachi, a nagaya (tenement row).

Next door to Genbei, a curmudgeonly umbrella mender with a reputation for keeping to himself, move a traveling carpenter, Sakichi, his wife Oyū, and their theater-loving daughter Ochie. Though the landlord warns them to “keep away,” a single line of dialogue is enough for Ochie to pry open the old man’s door. Before long, Genbei promises a solo turn of Uirō-uri (“The Medicine Peddler”), and the whole nagaya pools its crafts—hairdresser, temple-school teacher, carpenter—to form the “Nagaya Troupe,” aiming for Shiranami Yonin Otoko. The poverty of daily life and the knots in their hearts begin to dissolve into the laughter of rehearsal. As the smell of rain draws near, paper parasols bloom and the alley becomes a stage. A man who has long turned his back on the past, and a child who looks straight toward tomorrow—the light of the nagaya ties people back together once more.

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