The Methuen Drama Book of Contemporary Japanese Plays: The Bacchae-Holstein Milk Cows; One Night; Isn't Anyone Alive?; The Sun; Carcass

Tomohiro Maekawa founded the performance group Ikiume (Buried Alive) where he worked as a playwright and director. He has written and produced SF, occult and horror works such as Strolling Invader, The Sun Holy Land X, Mathematical Domino, and The Obelisk of the Beast. He also wrote plays for other companies
including The Sun 2068 (directed by Yukio Ninagawa) and From a Dark Place (directed by Eriko Ogawa), and he wrote and directed The Super Kabuki plays Sculpting the Sky (starring
Ennosuke Ichikawa) and Endless (supervised by Mansai Nomura). He has won the Yomiuri Theatre Award, the Kinokuniya Theatre Award and many others.