Japan's Modern Theatre
eBook - ePub

Japan's Modern Theatre

A Century of Change and Continuity

  1. 250 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Japan's Modern Theatre

A Century of Change and Continuity

About this book

This book endeavours to unravel the complicated skeins of Japanese theatre in the modern period and offers an appreciation of the richness of choice of presentational and representational theatre forms.Since the end of world War II there has been continuing but different conflict between the major theatrical genres. Kabuki continues to defend its ground successfully, but the 'new drama' (shingeki) became firmly established in its own right in the 1960s. It was a vigorous and exuberant 'underground' theatre which exploited anything and everything in the Japanese and western theatre traditions.Now, thirty years on, they too have been superseded. The youth theatre of the 1980s and 90s has thrown aside the concerns of the angry underground and developed a fast-moving bewilderingly kaleidoscopic drama of breath-taking energy.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Dedication
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Introduction: The Setting
  9. Chapter 1 Kabuki and the Challenges of a Changing Theatre World
  10. Chapter 2 New Acting, New Production, Some New Playwriting
  11. Chapter 3 Artists, Ideologues and Ideological Artists
  12. Chapter 4 Diversity in Adversity
  13. Chapter 5 Theatre Mobilised
  14. Chapter 6 Consolidation
  15. Chapter 7 One Tradition Promoted, One Challenged and One Created
  16. Notes
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index