ABSTRACT
I interviewed Chiaki Soma in November 2017. I regularly saw Chiaki when she was the first programme director of Festival/Tokyo and she held some remarkable festivals from 2009 to 2013. I was able to introduce Back to Back Theatre from Australia and she showed their wonderful production, Ganesh Versus the Third Reich at her last festival. Among her many projects since, Chiaki is the director of Arts Common Tokyo and a pioneering figure in introducing documentary theatre and arts and social practice to Japan. She was a curator/performing arts director at the Aichi Triennale 2019.
