東京を拠点に海外での公演も行う演劇集団。2007年発足。すべての脚本と演出を山本卓卓が手がける。 生と死、家族、感覚と言葉、集団社会、など物語のクリエイションは山本がその都度興味を持った対象からスタートし、より遠くを目指し普遍的な「問い」へアクセスしてゆく。近年は、舞台上に投写した文字・写真・映像・色・光・影などの要素と俳優を組み合わせた独自の演出と、観客の倫理観を揺さぶる強度ある脚本が評判を呼び、マレーシア・タイ・インドに招聘されコラボレーションを行うなど、アジア諸国からも注目されている。『幼女X』でBangkok Theatre Festival 2014 Best Original Script（最優秀脚本賞）とBest Play（最優秀作品賞）を受賞。『うまれてないからまだしねない』で第59回岸田國士戯曲賞最終候補ノミネート。2015年・2016年度セゾン文化財団ジュニアフェロー。構成員は、山本卓卓（代表・劇作家・演出家）、埜本幸良/福原冠（俳優）、たかくらかずき（アートディレクター）、川口聡（ライター）、坂本もも（プロデューサー）の6名。
HANCHU-YUEI is a theatre collective based in Tokyo, founded in 2007, and tours nationally and internationally. His works focus on the boundary of reality and unreality, and the story travels between each side of the boundary and questions the locations of un/reality. Suguru’s creation starts at the topics that he comes up with, such as life and death, family, sense and words, collective society…and aims further to access universal ‘questions’. His works have received attention not only in Japan but in other Asian countries for his unique way of rendition integrating the projected letters, photos, movies, colours, lights and shadows with the performers on the stage, and for his strong scripts, which often makes the audience question their ethical viewpoint and boundaries. He was awarded the Best Original Script and the Best Play in Bangkok Theatre Festival 2014 for Girl X. His work, Umaretenaikara Mada Shinenai (Cannot die yet, being not born) was shortlisted for the Kishida Prize for Drama. The constituent members of HANCHU-YUEI are six – Suguru Yamamoto (representative, playwright, stage director), Sachiro Nomoto, Kan Fukuhara (all the above actors), Kazuki Takakura (art director), Satoshi Kawaguchi (writer), and Momo Sakamoto (producer).
