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: 9780739123003
• ISBN10: 0739123009
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-05-17
• 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	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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