The Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum, Waseda University (familiarly known as Enpaku) is a research institute and museum on the culture of theatre and motion pictures. Since April 2020, Enpaku has been conducting investigations and collecting materials on performances that had to be cancelled or postponed in order to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. On October 7, Enpaku also began hosting an online exhibition. While diverse efforts are being made across Japan to archive the unprecedented pandemic (see E2282, E2283, E2321), our attempt aimed to historicize the “present” from the perspective of theatre and to accumulate plays that could not be performed in 2020, not as “memories” of those involved, but as public “records” to be passed down to the next generations.