A01=Brian Powell
Author_Brian Powell
Category=ATD
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Japanese performance studies
modern Japanese stage forms
postwar theatre evolution
shingeki movement
theatrical genre conflict
underground drama Japan
youth theatre analysis
Product details
- ISBN 9781873410301
- Weight: 830g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 27 Jun 2002
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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Now, thirty years on, they too have been superseded.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
