著者

菊川 徳之助

出版者

日本演劇学会

雑誌

演劇学論集 日本演劇学会紀要 (ISSN:13482815)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.46, pp.25-47, 2008

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<p>KINOSHITA Junji seems to have become interested in Okinawa in 1960, fifteen years after the end of World War II, when he co-created the Sprechchor, <i>Okinawa</i>, for the first China tour of the Shingeki theatre troupe, "Nihon Shingeki Dan." The work presents an Okinawan woman named NAMIHIRA Hide, who kills a former sergeant of the Japanese Army, YAMANO Takekichi, by cutting the rope he holds onto. She thus severs what Japan's past has been burdened with and she, as an Okinawan, throws herself to death from the cliff. Kinoshita completed the play in 1963 by confronting the issue of Okinawa within Mainland Japan without visiting Okinawa. What made him create a drama of alienation (à la Brecht) that was beyond his own theory of drama is firstly a kind of refracted double structure; he "looks at Okinawa through the eyes of Noboru JABANA, while being looked at by the same eyes in turn." This was caused by Kinoshita's sympathy with the life of Jabana, one of the intelligentsia in the Meiji Era. And secondly, a realistic impact of dissolution of his theatre company, "Budo no Kai". Accordingly, the alienation effect in this play is produced by placing "Okinawa" as the object of the drama.</p>