Modern Japanese Theatre and Performance
by Jortner, David; McDonald, Keiko I.; Wetmore, Kevin J., Jr.; Baird, Bruce; Clark, Steven J.; Fukushima, Yoshiko; Gillespie, John K.; Goodman, David G.; Inoue, Megumi; Key, Margaret; Kominz, Laurence R.; Martin, Carol; Poulton, M Cody; Salz, Jonah; Serper,Edition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2007-05-17
Publisher(s): Lexington Books
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Summary
Modern Japanese Theatre and Performance is a collection of sixteen essays on Japanese theatre, including historical overviews of twentieth century theatre, analyses of specific productions and individuals, and consideration of the intercultural nature of modern Japanese theatre. Also included is a new translation of a Superkyogen play.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| Introduction: Modern Japanese Theatre (Revisited) | p. xi |
| Shingeki History | |
| Why Did Sewamono Not Grow into Modern Realist Theatre? | p. 3 |
| The Rhetoric of the Real | p. 17 |
| Moment(um) of Memory: Metapatterns in Japanese Theatre since the 1960s | p. 33 |
| The Quest for Salvation in Japan's Modern History: Four Plays by Akimoto Matsuyo | p. 51 |
| Poison Women and National Identity in Postwar Japanese Performance | p. 65 |
| Senda Koreya and the Tenko Paradigm | p. 77 |
| Experimental Theatre(s) and Border Crossings | |
| Structureless in Structure: The Choreographic Tectonics of Hijikata Tatsumi's Buto | p. 93 |
| Terayama in Amsterdam and the Internationalization of Experimental Theatre | p. 109 |
| Super-kyogen: Radically Traditional Utopian Comedies | p. 123 |
| Classical Japanese Performance in a Contemporary Context: A Traditional Strategy of Juxtaposition | p. 149 |
| Specific Plays and Productions in Modern Japan | |
| Illegitimate Child of Shingeki: Comedy Actor Soganoya Gokuro and His Nonkina tosan (Easygoing Daddy) | p. 171 |
| Reflections of and on the Times: Morimoto Kaoru's A Woman's Life | p. 189 |
| Steeplechase: Mishima Yukio's Only Original Modern No Play | p. 205 |
| "Destroying the Audience's Alibi": Empathy and Ethics in Abe Kobo's Mihitsu no koi | p. 215 |
| Divine Memory and Abject Reality: Miyagi Satoshi's Tenshu Monogatari and Shimizu Shinjin's Bye Bye: The New Primitive | p. 225 |
| From Scaretto to Kaze to tomo ni sarinu: Musical Adaptations of Gone with the Wind in Japan | p. 237 |
| A Super-kyogen Script | |
| Mudskippers: Reviving Kyogen's Satire, Castigating Contemporary Authority | p. 253 |
| Mutsugoro (Mudskippers) | p. 259 |
| Works Cited | p. 271 |
| Index | p. 283 |
| About the Editors and Contributors | p. 287 |
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