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Cover: Mana Yamakage（design）Katsuya Terada（illustration）
Towards the Stage Adaptation
of
'The Night of Baba Yaga'
A story of queers seeking freedom in a world that watches, judges, and controls them.
Project Overview:
Empowering people from diverse backgrounds feels more urgent than ever.
We create:
a visually intense narrative,
spatial sounds,
surveillance & liberation,
and
embodied performance.
This project contributes by adapting a Japanese novel, The Night of Baba Yaga, winner of the Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger 2025.
The Night of Baba Yaga explores society as a panopticon - governed by surveillance and control.
This is a celebration of those who exist outside rigid categories of gender, love and identity.
It is a story of resistance - not through heroism, but through survival, ambiguity, and refusal to conform.
Ekkyo Creative Ltd is a UK-based theatre company developing stage adaptations of contemporary Japanese literature.
The company focuses on creating visually striking and culturally distinctive work for UK audiences.