- Haruka Ueda × Ulin Miula
Haruka Ueda
Haruka Ueda is an actor, playwright, and interpreter/translator based in Tokyo. Moving back and forth between Japan and the US, she spent a total of twelve years living in Boston, New Mexico, and Connecticut during her formative years. Wavering between language and the body, Japanese and English, she aims to be a vessel for life-affirming narratives that explore corporeality, border-crossing, and taboo. She began translating and interpreting in the arts after gaining experience at the Tokyo Festival Farm in 2021. Member of Art Translators Collective since 2025.
Ulin Miula
Ulin Miula is a director, playwright, and photographer. Winner of the Audience Award at the Toga Theatre Director Competition 2016. In recent years, she has expanded beyond traditional performing arts to create numerous works utilizing theatrical methods, including “spatial theater” and installations that feature no live actors.
Fringe Selection
“The Last Gig—of a Japanese Translator Who Feels at Home in English”
Haruka Ueda × Ulin Miula
Area
Date and Time
Sep. 20 (Sun) 16:30
Sep. 21 (Mon) 11:00／16:30
Sep. 22 (Tue) 16:30
Sep. 23 (Wed) 11:00
Performance Duration
Doors Open: 20 mins before
Notes
This work contains some sexual depictions. Recommended for ages 12 and up.
Performance Language
Admission Fee
Advance Tickets: ¥2,500
Student Tickets: ¥1,500*
Same-day Tickets: ¥3,000
Same-day Student Tickets: ¥2,000*
Special Support Ticket (includes script): ¥6,000
Passport(UZUMAKU PASS)：Free of charge (Advance reservation required)
Taking a stab at linguistic imperialism: A bilingual self
-translating one-person show in Japanese and English
Interpreter, playwright, and actor Haruka Ueda self-interprets between Japanese and English for this bilingual one-person show. In a near future where the rise of AI has eliminated arts-specialized interpretation work, an interpreter finds herself at the afterparty following her final gig, where she is assailed by memories of the past and anxieties from the future.
A cluster of themes emerges: her gratitude for a space that allowed her to exist in both Japanese and English; the social climate of people rejecting what they do not understand; the violent linguistic imperialism of English, a language she calls home. Turning the emotions and pain felt in her work as an interpreter into laughter, Ueda shares a record of a corporeal ritual—the vocation of interpretation that will soon disappear. If you have ever been at the whim of an inflated ego, or caught trapped in the world of meaning, this might hit closer to home than you think.
An extreme explosive shower of language <3
Don’t miss this intense performance that bares it all 😉
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Performers
- Haruka Ueda
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Staff
- Written by Haruka Ueda
Direction: Ulin Miula (Tonali-ya)
Stage Management: Mizuhito Kuroda (GECKO PARADE)
Operation: Studio Houboku
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Accessibility
Consecutive Intepretation (Japanese/English)
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Access
11 minutes by walk from Toyooka Station (JR San’in Main Line)
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Contact Us
- last.gig.2025@gmail.com
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Credits
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Organizer: Haruka Ueda
Cooperation: Tonali-ya
Operation: Studio Houboku
Production: Theater Commons Executive Committee, Art Translators Collective
Work-in-progress Performance Steward: Mizuhito Kuroda (GECKO PARADE)"
- Haruka Ueda
Haruka Ueda
Haruka Ueda is an actor, playwright, and interpreter/translator based in Tokyo. Moving back and forth between Japan and the US, she spent a total of twelve years living in Boston, New Mexico, and Connecticut during her formative years. Wavering between language and the body, Japanese and English, she aims to be a vessel for life-affirming narratives that explore corporeality, border-crossing, and taboo. She began translating and interpreting in the arts after gaining experience at the Tokyo Festival Farm in 2021. Member of Art Translators Collective since 2025.
- Ulin Miula
Ulin Miula
Ulin Miula is a director, playwright, and photographer. Winner of the Audience Award at the Toga Theatre Director Competition 2016. In recent years, she has expanded beyond traditional performing arts to create numerous works utilizing theatrical methods, including “spatial theater” and installations that feature no live actors.