The Voyage of Contemporary Japanese Theatre.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Archive (pre 2000) eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: Bennett, Michael,; Boublil, Alain,; Chekhov, Anton,; Churchill, Caryl,; Claude-Michel,,; Darion, Joe,; Eriko, Watanabe,; Euripides,,; Fils, Alexandre Dumas,; Hideki, Noda,; Hiroshi, Koike,; Hisashi, Inoue,; Jûrò, Kara,; Jû’ichirò, Takeuchi,; Kunio, Shimizu,; Kòdai, Okabe,; Kòhei, Tsuka,; Makoto, Satoh,; Masakazu, Yamazaki,; Matsuyo, Akimoto,; Minoru, Betsuyaku,; Nagatoshi, Sakamoto,; Rei, Ichidò,; Ren, Saitò,; Seishin, Chinen,; Shakespeare, William,; Shògo, Òta,; Shòji, Kòkami,; Shûji, Terayama,; Sò, Kitamura,; Tadashi, Suzuki,; Takeshi, Kawamura,; Takurò, Endò,; Tatsumi, Hijikata,; Tetsu, Yamazaki,; Wheeler, Hugh,; Williams, Tennessee,; Yasuhiko, Òhashi,; Yorozu, Ikuta,; Yutaka, Higashi,
• TeilnehmendeR: Rimer, J. Thomas.
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [1997]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 1997
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (328 p.)

Senda Akihiko is one of Japan's finest and best-known modern drama critics. This collection of his essays, articles, and reviews from 1971 to 1987 presents international audiences with the first opportunity to experience the excitement and accomplishments of the theatrical revolution that has continued to sweep over the Japanese stage since the 1960s. Consistently judicious and honest, the essays reveal the excitement (or disappointment) of each phase in the unfolding "voyage" of contemporary Japanese theatre.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Translator’s Introduction: From the Ground Up -- Prologue -- Scene I: 1971–1973 The First Period -- 1. A Drifting Commune. Diary Of A Voyage To The West -- 2. The Red Tent in Good Health. A Tale of Two Cities -- 3. A Logic Surpassing Any Declaration of Determination. When We Go Down That Heartless River -- 4. Those Slight Stirrings of the Man in the Wind. A Tale of the Smallpox -- 5. A Ghastly Masterpiece with Cruel Intentions. The Great Doctor Yabuhara -- Scene II: 1974–1979 Tsuka Kòhei and After -- 6. The Intoxication of a “Myth” That Soars. The Kara Version: Matasaburò of the Wind -- 7. The Appearance of a New Talent. The Legend of a Flying Dragon: And Then a Crow -- 8. Minus Dynamics, All Scooped Out. Chairs and a Legend -- 9. The Crouch as a Critique of the Modern. The Trojan Women -- 10. An Obstinacy Well Worth Mentioning. Tosa Genji -- 11. A Drama of a New and Fanciful Geography. Knock -- 12. Harvest: After a Year and a Half. The Comic World of Shòwa -- 13. A First Trip to a Distant Village. A Night’s Feast -- 14. A Question to the Man Who Blew the Flute. The Rats of Hamelin -- 15. The Nò Stage, Newly Activated. The Legend Of Komachi -- 16. Making The Connection: Killing the Beggar. Thirty Days Hath September -- 17. A Humble Self-Examination. The Dressing Room -- 18. A Scene of Ripening. The Bacchae -- 19. A Critique of Miyazawa Kenji as a Tableau Vivant. Directions to Servants -- 20. The Conflagration of an Exploding Lemon. Lemon -- 21. The Whirlings of a World at Birth. A Tale of the Original Japanese -- 22. Laughing Okinawa. Anthropology Museum -- 23. A Ripening of Melody. Shanghai ’Vance King -- 24. Yohei Who Lives On. Double Suicide, after Chikamatsu -- 25. A Play Goes on “Outside The Walls”. Lemmings -- 26. Obstacles to Abandonment. Two Women -- 27. In the Midst of a Weakened Art. The Lady of the Camellias -- Scene III: 1980–1987 The Period of Metatheatre -- 28. Macbeth in a Forest of Cherry Trees. Ninagawa Macbeth -- 29. A Duck with Two Different Wings. The Seagull -- 30. A Diffused Reflection. Travel of Twenty-seven Thousand Light Years -- 31. Deciphering Miyazawa Kenji with Criticism and Sympathy. The Theatre Train of Iihatòbo -- 32. The Bachelors Who Continue on. That Raven, Even -- 33. Dreams That Are Ruffians. A Tale of Mannen-Town in Shitaya -- 34. Two Blanches. A Streetcar Named Desire -- 35. The Magic of Assorted Mirrors. Run, Merusu—A Girl’S Lips Are Dynamite! -- 36. Signposts along the Way. A Legend of Fish: A Teacher Kills His Student at Rikkyò University -- 37. A Snack Bar in the Woods of Athens. A Midsummer Night’s Dream -- 38. Laughter in a Gothic Musical. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street -- 39. The Power of the Older Sister, The Power of the Mirror. Night Shadows—A Gentle Ghost Story -- 40. Dining and a Sense of Freedom. Bubbling and Boiling -- 41. A World in Which the Composition is Now Complete. Song of Praise and Thanksgiving -- 42. A Shock from Below the Belt. The Song of a Strange Family—the Case of the On-Line Fraud of Itò Motoko -- 43. Tsuka Kòhei’s “Staircase”. The Kamata Marching Song -- 44. The Power of Imagination Lavished on a House. Melancholy When the Flowers Bloom -- 45. Malcontent Passions. Radical Party -- 46. A Painful Sense of Distance. Afternoon of a Man and Woman -- 47. Mankind, and Those Theatrical Slippages. Man of La Mancha -- 48. A World in Which That’s All We Can Do. Memories of the Little Finger -- 49. The Basic Principles of a Vision Already Experienced. Rules For Sleeping in the Universe -- 50. A Fight Against Fixed Forms. Japan Wars -- 51. The Sympathies and Disjunctures of Nostalgia. Tango at the End of Winter -- 52. A Tale After the Myths Have Crumbled. Genocide -- 53. Twenty-Five Hundred Years: Gazing at a Scrap Pile. Earth Station -- 54. A Time Before Everything Dissolves. Taking along a Sunset Like the Morning -- 55. The Jigsaw Puzzle of Sex. Cloud 9 -- 56. Surprising Things Happen. Comet Messenger Siegfried -- 57. The Dilemma of a Drama With a Chorus. Chorus Line -- 58. The Adventures of Nostalgia. Children of Night -- 59. Medieval Preaching in an Outdoor Space. Oguri Hangan and Princess Terute -- 60. The Results of Practical Romance. I Bit The Green Seed -- 61. A Crime Explained, a Crime Unexplainable Memo from the Aliens -- 62. A Quick Glimpse of the Meaning of the World. Wind Station -- 63. A Nest of Boxes at the Edge of Waking. The Tempest: A Rehearsal on a Nò Stage on Sado Island -- 64. Closing in on the Self: Zeami As “Performer”. Zeami -- 65. The Dynamism of “The City Multitudes”. Les Misérables -- 66. That First Kiss with the Taste of Radioactivity. Godzilla -- 67. A Refreshing Wind Surpasses Its Domain. Alejo—to Praise the Wind -- Epilogue -- Appendixes -- Index -- About the Author -- About the Translator