Japan's Modern Theatre
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ICHIKAWA SADANJI II
Imperial Rule Assistance Association
Imperial Theatre
Japanese Theatre
Japanese Theatre History
kabuki
Kabuki Actors
Kinoshita Junji
Leading Part
Left Wing Drama
Matsui Sumako
Mayama Seika
Modern Japanese Theatre
moscow
Moscow Art Theatre
movement
Murayama Tomoyoshi
Osanai Kaoru
proletarian
Proletarian Drama
SCAP
SCAP Policy
Senda Koreya
shingeki
Shingeki Actors
Shingeki Companies
Shingeki Movement
Trunk Theatre
Young Man
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- ISBN 9781138973718
- Weight: 460g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 24 Apr 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book endeavours to unravel the complicated skeins of Japanese theatre in the modern period and offers an appreciation of the richness of choice of presentational and representational theatre forms.
Since the end of world War II there has been continuing but different conflict between the major theatrical genres. Kabuki continues to defend its ground successfully, but the 'new drama' (shingeki) became firmly established in its own right in the 1960s. It was a vigorous and exuberant 'underground' theatre which exploited anything and everything in the Japanese and western theatre traditions.
Now, thirty years on, they too have been superseded. The youth theatre of the 1980s and 90s has thrown aside the concerns of the angry underground and developed a fast-moving bewilderingly kaleidoscopic drama of breath-taking energy.
Brian Powell University of Oxford
