Author: Japan Playwrights AssociationPublisher:
ISBN: 9784314101585
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
The eighth volume treats the works of eight award-winning shingeki (new drama) playwrights of the 1950s.
Half a Century of Japanese Theater VIII
Author: Japan Playwrights AssociationPublisher:
ISBN: 9784314101585
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
The eighth volume treats the works of eight award-winning shingeki (new drama) playwrights of the 1950s.
Half a Century of Japanese Theater
Author: 日本劇作家協会Publisher: Japan Playwrights Association
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Half a Century of Japanese Theater is a series of translated Japanese plays that begins from the contemporary theater scene of the 1990s and moves back through the decades of modern Japanese theater to the mid-twentieth century.The threefold aim of the Japan Playwrights Association in publishing this series is to offer performable English translations of modern Japanese plays, to encourage the production of such plays by foreign theatrical troupes and to extend possibilities for further international exchange in theater. The first volume, Japanese Theater of the 1990s, Part 1, treats six major playwrights, five men and one woman. Their works range from comedies to accounts of historical figures like Korean activist An Chung-gun and Nobel physics prize winner Tomonaga Shinichiro. Diverse as these plays are, they represent the social concerns and artistic interests of the dramatists of this period. Contents: Citizens of Seoul (Hirata Oriza), Epitaph for the Whales (Sakate Yoji), Time's Storeroom (Nagai Ai), Fireflies (Suzue Toshiro), Tokyo Atomic Klub (Makino Nozomi), Ice Blossoms (Kaneshita Tatsuo).
Half a Century of Japanese Theater
Author: Japan Playwrights AssociationPublisher:
ISBN: 9784314101356
Category : Japanese drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Half a Century of Japanese Theater
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9784314101608
Category : Japanese drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Half a Century of Japanese Theater
Author: Japan Playwrights AssociationPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
The third volume in the series presents five plays by major playwrights. These works treat, in distinctive and sometimes fabulous ways, the quest for identity, which was the dominant theme of the postmodern Japanese theater of the 1980s.
Half a Century of Japanese Theater: 1960s, part 2
Author: Half a Century of Japanese Theater IV; 1980s Part 2
Author: Japan Playwrights AssociationPublisher: Japan Playwrights Association
ISBN: 9784314101486
Category : Japanese drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In this fourth volume in the series, five playwrights portray diverse human predicaments whose common concern is the conflict between self-determination and social discrimination. The different approaches are spiced with a piquant sense of humor. Contents: Ode to Joy (Kitamura Sô); Nippon Wars (Kawamura Takeshi); A Legend of Mermaids (Chong Wishing); Thread Hell (Kishida Rio); The Red Demon Akaoni (Noda Hideki).
Half a Century of Japanese Theater VIII
Author: Japan Playwrights AssociationPublisher:
ISBN: 9784314101585
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The eighth volume treats the works of eight award-winning shingeki (new drama) playwrights of the 1950s.
Half a Century of Japanese Theater 2; 1990s Part 2
Author: 日本劇作家協会Publisher: Japan Playwrights Association
ISBN: 9784314101394
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Half a Century of Japanese Theater is a series of translated Japanese plays that begins from the contemporary theater scene of the 1990s and moves back through the decades of modern Japanese theater to the mid-twentieth century. The threefold aim of the Japan Playwrights Association in publishing this series is to offer performable English translations of modern Japanese plays, to encourage the production of such plays by foreign theatrical troupes and to extend possibilities for further international exchange in theater. This volume treats six plays by major playwrights and a multimedia piece by a performance unit. These works raise the issues of the cost of modernization for Japan and of the value of realistic drama as a theatrical form. Contents: The Man Next Door (Iwamatsu Ryo); Farewell to Huckleberry (Narui Yutaka); Festival for the Fish (Yu Miri); Hinemi (Miyazawa Akio); S/N (Dumb Type); Rhythm Method (Iijima Sanae and Suzuki Yumi); Cape Moon (Matsuda Masataka).
Half a Century of Japanese Theater
Author: Japan Playwrights AssociationPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9784314101554
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
A series of translated Japanese plays that begins in the 1990s and moves back to the mid-20th century. The aim of the Japan Playwrights Association is to offer performable English translations of modern Japanese plays, to encourage the production of such plays out of Japan, and to extend possibilities for further international exchange.