著者
由紀 草一
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.41, pp.41-57, 2003-12-15 (Released:2018-12-14)

What is new about TSUKA Kôhei's plays? He was born in 1948, in the middle of the so called “period of baby-boom” after the World War II. When he was a student in Tokyo in the late 1960s, he witnessed many new plays by new avant-garde playwrights. He learned a lot from them, but refused their concept of history. They tried to visualize on the stage postwar history, in which their characters lived their own lives. But Tsuka's characters are free from that history and live on their own. Instead of history, bodies and passions make drama. Thus, for example, his play, Hiryuden, shows the students' revolt in the late 60s, which he experienced as a student, not as a fact but as a parody of it. A fact is criticized by means of a fiction. The play shows not past history, but a possible history. It is, nevertheless, a history, his history of the 60s, which, however, he could see only on the stage.
著者
由紀 草一
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.45, pp.37-56, 2007 (Released:2018-01-12)

Madame de Sade, as a perfect dialogic play, looks like the drama which accorded with Western legitimate dramaturgy. However, its essence is close to a Japanese traditional play, Noh, because an opposition of logos does not happen between the characters, who are all women. Five women ask the heroine, Rene, in sequence. “What is Sade for you?” She answers passionately, making full use of splendid rhetoric, which constitutes the structure of this drama. Her wish is so extraordinary that nobody can understand it, and it is impossible to realize it in this world. Finally, it turns out that even the very man whom she has been waiting for does not match her. Her image is based on those of heroines in Zeami's works such as ‘Hanjyo’ or ‘Kinuta,’ which show the great enthusiasm of a woman waiting for her man. In modern Japanese theater, before Misima Yukio, Kisida Kunio wrote this type of drama, ‘Saigetsu (Space of Time).’