Our Cosmic Dust
Written and Directed by Michinari Ozawa, Translated and Adapted by Susan Momoko Hingley
Meet Shotaro, a curious school boy who sets out on an adventure to find his late father among the stars. Behind him follows his mother, sick with worry and determined to bring him home. Along their journeys, they encounter a kaleidoscope of characters each with their own stories of love, loss, and the absurdities of life. Amid the poignancy, moments of humour and wonder remind us that even in grief, there’s room for laughter and joy.
Our Cosmic Dust is a heartfelt and imaginative tale that explores how we find guidance in others and solace in the cosmos – all seen through the wide-eyed perspective of a child.
Making its English-language debut, this three-time award-winning production blends intricate puppetry, hand-drawn illustrations, and inventive video design to craft a visually stunning and delightfully unexpected theatrical experience. Created by Tokyo writer and director Michinari Ozawa and translated by British-Japanese theatre maker Susan Momoko Hingley, Our Cosmic Dust is a touching and uplifting exploration of the human spirit.
appare in association with Park Theatre.
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Evenings
19:30
Thu & Sat15:00
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Duration
Approx 1 hour and 30 mins
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Tickets
£15 - £52.50
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Genre
Drama
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Age guidance
12+
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Content warnings
This production contains strong language.
Content Warnings
This production contains strong language.
Also contains themes of death and grief. There will be use of haze, video and animation, including bright lights and flickering images.
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In the press
"Dramatic storytelling with a human touch"
News Picks
"Quite extraordinary"
The Yomiuri Shimbun
"Fun. Beautiful. Heartwarming."
Entameseiri
Cast and creatives
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Hiroki Berrecloth
Shotaro
Hiroki Berrecloth
Shotaro
Hiroki is a British-Japanese actor, appearing at Park Theatre for his stage debut in The Garden of Words and on screen in The Hunger Games: Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (Lionsgate) and Mr Loverman (BBC).
After graduating from the University of Manchester in 2023 with a degree in English Literature and Drama, he began training at the Manchester School of Acting and is presently also a student of voice coach Gemma Maddock. -
Nina Bowers
Tara
Nina Bowers
Tara
Nina recently wrapped on season 2 of The Diplomat (BBC) and previous to that finished in a run of As You Like It at The Globe. She trained at Central School of Speech & Drama and has worked prolifically in theatre since graduating. Nina has worked with Complicite and Simon McBurney multiple times and just played Cassandra in Girl On An Altar at the Kiln Theatre, directed by Annabelle Comyn. She was previously at The Globe Theatre performing in Henry IV Part 1 & 2, Henry V, Henry VI and Richard III, directors include Sean Holmes, Federay Holmes, Ilinca Radian.
Other theatre includes: Dear Elizabeth at The Gate Theatre and The Wolves at Stratford East, both directed by Ellen McDougal, plus Twilight: Los Angeles 1992, directed by Ola Ince.
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Ian Hallard
Orion
Ian Hallard
Orion
Training: Mountview.
Theatre: The Way Old Friends Do (Birmingham Rep/Park/Criterion); The Boys in the Band (Park/Vaudeville Theatres) – WhatsonStage Best Actor nomination; Great Britain (National Theatre/Theatre Royal Haymarket); Scenes from an Execution (National Theatre); Adventurous (Jermyn Street); Closer to Heaven (Above the Stag); Puppy (King’s Head); Tumulus (Soho Theatre); Hogarth’s Progress (Rose, Kingston); Tonight at 8:30 (Jermyn Street); Outings (Lyric Theatre); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Theatr Clywd); Lovesong of the Electric Bear (Arts/Hope Theatres); Alcina (Festival Aix en Provence); The Vote (Donmar Warehouse); King Lear (Cockpit); Blavatsky’s Tower (Baron’s Court); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Southwark Playhouse); Lilies (Greenwich); Donkeys’ Years (UK Tour); The Importance of Being Earnest (Jermyn Street); A Christmas Carol (Antic Disposition); The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (UK Tour); The Tempest (Wimbledon); Carmen (Holland Park Opera); Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Battersea Arts Centre); and Trial By Jury (Covent Garden Festival).
Television: Father Brown; Endeavour; The Power; Martin’s Close; Doctor Who; The Crown; Sherlock; Poirot; An Adventure in Space and Time; Hustle; Doctors; Crooked House; The First Men in the Moon; Where the Heart Is; Marple; Crisis Control; The Worst Journey in the World; Ideal; Global Conspiracy; Suburban Shootout. Film: Mary Queen of Scots; The Act; The Dark Room; Personal.
Writing credits include for theatre: The Way Old Friends Do; Adventurous; Steenie; Horse- Play; and for television: Poirot; Bookish.
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Millie Hikasa
Usami
Millie Hikasa
Usami
Millie trained at Arts Educational School, in BA (HONS) Acting, 3 years.
Theatre credits include: The Ocean At The End Of The Lane (National Theatre, UK Tour & West End) and Jack Absolute Flies Again (National Theatre).
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Hari MacKinnon
Alastair
Hari MacKinnon
Alastair
Hari trained at LAMDA.
Theatre credits include: The Duchess of Malfi (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse); The Father and the Assassin (National Theatre); The Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare’s Globe) and The Cherry Orchard (The Yard & ETT).
Screen credits include: A Taste for Murder (Eagle Eye & Britbox) and Staged (BBC).Workshops include: Skyvers (Almeida) and The Fair Maid of The West (RSC).
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Michinari Ozawa
Writer, Director and Set Designer
Michinari Ozawa
Writer, Director and Set Designer
Michinari is an award winning playwright, director and actor. He’s acclaimed for playing a wide range of roles in his own distinctive and energetic style. He leads his own theatre company, EPOCH MAN, for which he writes, directs and designs. The Japanese premier of Our Cosmic Dust, which Michinari wrote, directed, performed in and designed the set for, won three awards at Japan’s most prestigious Yomiuri Theatre Awards 2024 for Outstanding Theatrical Production, Outstanding Director and Best Actress. His 2021 production of The Aurelian Siblings was selected as a finalist for the 66th Kunio Kishida Drama Awards. Other writing credits include: Blue Egoist (Theatre Milano-Za, Tokyo) and Slip Skid (Kinkero Theatre, Tokyo). Acting credits include: Patalliro! (Teh Galaxy Theatre, Tokyo) and Metal Macbeth (IHI Stage Around Tokyo, Tokyo).
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Susan Momoko Hingley
Adaptor and Translator
Susan Momoko Hingley
Adaptor and Translator
Susan is a British-Japanese actress and writer, who translates Japanese and German plays into English. She co-wrote and performed in The Garden of Words at the Park Theatre in 2023 and has also written Petal (Omnibus Theatre) and Baaba’s Footsteps (Vault Festival). She has recently translated Love in Action (Noda Map / Sadlers Wells, surtitles); Onigoro Valley (Royal Court / New National Theatre Tokyo); The Good Person of Szechwan (English Touring Theatre); Threepenny Opera (National Theatre); The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Donmar Warehouse) and Puntila and His Man Matti (Royal Lyceum). As an actress, Susan’s theatre highlights include: My Neighbour Totoro, Wendy & Peter Pan, A Life of Galileo, Boris Godunov and The Orphan of Zhao (all Royal Shakespeare Company); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare’s Globe); Missing People (Leeds Playhouse / New National Theatre Tokyo); One Small Step (Umeda Arts Theatre / Charing Cross Theatre) and she is associate artist of Tangled Feet ensemble. Film and TV includes: Years And Years (BBC/ HBO); Doctors (BBC); Shino’s Show and The Gloaming. She trained at East 15 Acting School and Ecole Philippe Gaulier in Paris after studying Law at the University of Warwick.
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Mikayla Teodoro
Puppet Director & Designer
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Alexandra Rutter
Associate Director and Dramaturg
Alexandra Rutter
Associate Director and Dramaturg
Alex is a British theatre director, writer & creative development producer based in Tokyo with a decade of experience specialising in Anglo- Japanese collaboration and adaptations of Anime and video games. Working with leading artists and producers in Japan since 2015, Alex has directed at many large-scale Tokyo venues including Bunkamura Theatre Cocoon, Milano-Za and TBS Akasaka Act Theatre. She was Resident Director for 6 years with Nelke Planning, pioneers of Anime, Manga and Video Game stage productions and is co-founder & director of award-winning UK company Whole Hog Theatre. Most recently, she has worked as a puppet and movement director on Michinari Ozawa’s Blue Egoist. _ Highlights include: Director, Adaptor & Producer of Studio Ghibli’s Princess Mononoke (AiiA Theatre, Tokyo); Director, Co-Writer & Creative Producer of The Garden of Words (Park Theatre); Director of Devil Butler With Black Cat (IMM Theatre); Puppet Director of Prince Of Tennis (The Third Stage); Director & Performance script Romeo & Juliet (Tokyo Bunkamura Theatre Cocoon) and Creative Director for Magia Record (Akasaka Act Theatre).
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Eika Shimbo
Video Designer
Eika Shimbo
Video Designer
Eika graduated from Musashino Art University, studying scenography. She went on to work as an apprentice of Daiki Ueda, joining &FICTION!, a video planning, art direction and video production company. Her most recent theatre credits include: Pluto; The Nuns and the Broadway musical Dreamgirls (Japanese edition). For EPOCH MAN, she has previously collaborated on Maybe a Crane Tsuru (Kamoshirenai / Yokohama version).
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Tomohiro Kaburagi (ORENOTE)
Sound Designer
Tomohiro Kaburagi (ORENOTE)
Sound Designer
Tomohiro is a sound designer and mixing/ mastering engineer. He is also a member of the Japan Society of Stage Sound Engineers. He has worked on various productions with Michinari Ozawa. Recent productions include: The changeover period (directed by Daisuke Miura); Wash out one’s stones (directed by Marie Gonohe); Fox of Usyu (directed by Ryo Hirano) and The man who killed Nobunaga 2024 (directed by Takaya Okamoto). He is also a member of the musical band group ORENOTE, which he formed with the actor and musician ORENOGRAFITTI.
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ORENOGRAFFITI (ORENOTE)
Composer
ORENOGRAFFITI (ORENOTE)
Composer
While working as an actor, he began composing and arranging incidental music on his own in 2005. Since then, he has worked on a wide range of works, from straight plays to musicals, skit plays, tent performances and translated plays. He has also worked on many of Michinari Ozawa’s productions, including the one-man show Maybe a Crane; Slip Skid and the DMMTV production Tale of the Raccoon. Recent works include: Shin Ru Hima; Musical Touken Ranbu Utagou Ranbu Kyoran 2019 (Song Contribution); Zenkinsen, Kasanare (played by Yohei Isshik x Michinari Ozawa); Korean musical TRACE U (Music Director) and more.
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Momoko Handa
Producer
Momoko Handa
Producer
Momoko graduated from Keio University’s faculty of economics. After working for a major talent agency, she founded momocan Inc, of which she is CEO, with the aim of creating an open and free environment for artists to practise their craft and to present a wide genre of productions to the world.
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Epoch Man
Supporter
Epoch Man
Supporter
Founded by Michinari Ozawa and led by his distinguished style, renowned for its delicacy, tenacity and emotional weight, EPOCH MAN theatre company uses humour and physical storytelling to delve into deeply human stories. EPOCH MAN’s shows explore the lives of ordinary yet troubled people at times of great strife, and their journeys towards solace. Michinari builds a team for each production and is acclaimed for designing his unique sets from scratch – creating visually stunning productions that continue to astonish audiences. Company highlights include: Our Cosmic Dust (Shimjuko Theatre Tops, Tokyo); Maybe a Crane (Honda Theatre, Tokyo); The Aurelian Siblings (Ekimae Theatre, Tokyo) and Yume Zorozoro (Theatre711, Tokyo).
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appare Co. Ltd.
Producer
appare Co. Ltd.
Producer
appare introduces extraordinary Japanese talent and unconventional projects across the globe with a unique creative touch. appare’s aim is to bring the very best of Japanese IPs, art, theatre, food, music and performance to the world.
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