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,

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ISBN: 9780739111529 | 0739111523
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 3/23/2006

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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.

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Modern Japanese Theatre (Revisited)

David Jortner

I. Shingeki History

Why Did Sewamono Not Grow into Modern Realist Theatre?

(14)

Megumi Inoue

The Rhetoric of the Real

(16)

M. Cody Poulton

Moment(um) of Memory: Metapatterhs in Japanese Theatre since the 1960's

(18)

John K. Gillespie

The Quest for Salvation in Japan's Modern History: Four Plays by Akimoto Matsuyo

(14)

David G. Goodman

Poison Women and National Identity in Postwar Japanese Performance

(12)

Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei

Senda Koreya and the Tenko Paradigm

(16)

John D. Swain

II. Experimental Theatre(s) and Border Crossings

Structureless in Structure: The Choreographic Tectonics of Hijikata Tatsumi's Buto

(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

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