Half a Century of Japanese Theater, 1960's - Brossura

Japan Playwrights Association

Brossura

ISBN 10: 4314101563 ISBN 13: 9784314101561

Casa editrice: Janpan Playwrights Assn, 2005

Riassunto

The seventh volume in this series treats the major works of six award-winning counterculture playwrights of the 1960s. Miyamoto Ken’s Meiji Coffin is a biographical play about the Christian socialist Tanaka Shozo and his involvement in the Ashio copper mine pollution problem of the early Meiji period. Fukuda Yoshiyuki’s Oppekepe is a fictionalized treatment of Kawakami Otojiro’s shinpa theater company that performed soshi plays, a New Wave theater form that arose in the early modernization period of Japan. Comedy Duo in Hibernation by Akihama Satoshi is a delightful absurdist piece about two family members stuck together in the snow. Akimoto Matsuyo’s Our Lady of the Scabs depicts how a cult captures the hearts of its naive followers while ignoring or exploiting the truly devout. Shimizu Kunio’s Such a Serious Frivolity uses the image of a queue to illustrate the docility of citizens and the defiance of youth. At Play with a Lion by Yamazaki Mazakazu treats the complex relations between the seventeenth-century ruler Toyotomi Hideyoshi and the consummate tea artist Sen no Rikyu.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Janpan Playwrights Assn
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 4314101563
• ISBN 13: 9784314101561
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 434