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,

• ISBN13: 9780739111529
• ISBN10: 0739111523
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-03-23
• Publisher: Lexington Books

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	ix
Introduction: Modern Japanese Theatre (Revisited)	xi
David Jortner
I. Shingeki History
Why Did Sewamono Not Grow into Modern Realist Theatre?	3	(14)
Megumi Inoue
The Rhetoric of the Real	17	(16)
M. Cody Poulton
Moment(um) of Memory: Metapatterhs in Japanese Theatre since the 1960's	33	(18)
John K. Gillespie
The Quest for Salvation in Japan's Modern History: Four Plays by Akimoto Matsuyo	51	(14)
David G. Goodman
Poison Women and National Identity in Postwar Japanese Performance	65	(12)
Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei
Senda Koreya and the Tenko Paradigm	77	(16)
John D. Swain
II. Experimental Theatre(s) and Border Crossings
Structureless in Structure: The Choreographic Tectonics of Hijikata Tatsumi's Buto	93	(16)
Bruce Baird
Terayama in Amsterdam and the Internationalization of Experimental Theatre	109	(14)
Steven Clark
Super-kyogen: Radically Traditional Utopian Comedies	123	(26)
Jonah Salz
Classical Japanese Performance in a Contemporary Context: A Traditional Strategy of Juxtaposition	149	(22)
Zvika Serper
III. Specific Plays and Productions in Modern Japan
Illegitimate Child of Shingeki: Comedy Actor Soganoya Gokurei and His Nonkina tosan (Easygoing Daddy)	171	(18)
Yoshiko Fukushima
Reflections of and on the Times: Morimoto Kaoru's A Woman's Life	189	(16)
Guohe Zheng
Steeplechase: Mishima Yukio's Only Original Modern No Play	205	(10)
Laurence Kominz
"Destroying the Audience's Alibi": Empathy and Ethics in Abe Kobo's Mihitsu no koi	215	(10)
Margaret Key
Divine Memory and Abject Reality: Miyagi Satoshi's Tenshu Monogatari and Shimizu Shinjin's Bye Bye: The New Primitive	225	(12)
Carol Martin
From Scaretto to Kaze to tomo ni sarinu: Musical Adaptations of Gone with the Wind in Japan	237	(16)
Kevin J. Wetmore Jr.
IV. A Super-kyogen Script
Mudskippers: Reviving Kyogen's Satire, Castigating Contemporary Authority	253	(6)
Jonah Salz
Mutsugoro (Mudskippers)	259	(12)
Umehara Takeshi, translated by Jonah Salz and Tomoko Onabe Salz
Works Cited	271	(12)
Index	283	(4)
About the Editors and Contributors	287