著者
矢橋 透
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.37, pp.365-383, 1999-09-30 (Released:2019-11-11)

Some philosophers conceive today that the present popularity of the media of virtual reality is connected with the collapse of the judgement of value at a deep level. A similar complex phenomenon was found at the dawn of the Modern Age. The theatre, which invented the technique of perspective scenery, functioned in a sense as a sort of VR medium. We can verify this fact in the case of P. Corneille's L'Illusion comique (1635-6), which has a very specific structure of the double “theatre within theatre”.In those days Skepticism prevailed among European intellectuals. For them the world ―the medieval cosmos― seemed to be transformed into a kind of simulacrum of theatre, not vice versa. L'Illusion comique represents this transformation by means of the double structures of theatre within theatre, i. e. virtual reality. Therefore, it can be undertood to be a formative apparatus of the modern world, as J.-M. Apostolides says.
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

<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>
著者
萩原 健
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.49, pp.53-73, 2009

<p>Since the mid-1920s, agitprop troupes were established in Japan under the influence of the Russian Revolution and the international socialist movement. Performances took place not only in theatres but also in public spaces such as factory grounds, where the agitprop troupes performed critical social sketches for workers who hardly went to the theatre.</p><p>Among these Japanese agitprop troupes, the "Mezamashi-Tai (Alarm clock troupe)" was especially remarkable. The Japanese actor Koreya Senda, who had studied and worked in an agitprop troupe in Germany from 1927 to 1931, became a troupe member in 1932 and promoted its development according to his experiences in Germany. The performances of the troupe included montages of short dramatic pieces, sprechchor and musical pieces. The troupe also performed in front of regular audiences. Their performances created a new theatrical genre. They were simply constructed and the agitprop effect was preferred to artistic perfection. The Mezamashi-Tai became very popular, but it had to close its operations in 1934 under the pressure of the national security law. Some of its former members worked in governmental theatre organizations until 1945.</p><p>The activities of the "Mezamashi-Tai" have hardly been researched yet because of their political message and of their "non-artistic" form. However, the approach of the Mazamashi-Tai contained elements which in the meantime have become characteristic features of many theatrical performances since the 1970s until today.</p>
著者
中野 正昭
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.49, pp.75-98, 2009 (Released:2018-01-12)

Kokumin Engeki which means the National Theater was a popular concept with journalism, the academy, and the goverment, in Japan under WWII. We associate Kokumin Engeki with Japanese wartime nationalism and fascism. The government promoted the Kokumin Engeki contest from 1941 to 1944, but it is the strangest thing that the some plays of national policy were rejected or defeated. As a matter of fact, the state powers and academic authorities didn't have the distinct concept of Kokumin Engeki. This thesis is about the confusion of the Kokumin Engeki contest as seen in the participating plays of FURUKAWA ROPPA's company and his diary.
著者
法月 敏彦
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.39, pp.3-5, 2001

<p>"Katari" holds an important function in the traditional Japanese theatre. But the word could be rendered into English as story-telling, narrative, narration, or even monologue. In fact, "katari" has been used in different senses on different occasions, and thus the discussion on "katari" has often become confusing in the theatre scholarship in Japan.</p><p>In this special issue on "Katari and Theatre" we examine the various functions of "katari" in theatre, both Western and Japanese, traditional and modern. We hope that nine articles and one research note included here will make some contribution to the future discussion on "katari" in general.</p>
著者
平敷 尚子
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.43, pp.193-207, 2005

<p>In 1958, TANAKA Sumie wrote a play, <i>A Woman Who Beats the Drum</i> (<i>Tsuzumi no Onna</i>), in which she imitated the structure of CHIKAMATSU Monzaemon's drama, <i>The Drum of the Waves of Horikawa</i> (<i>Horikawa Nami no Tsuzumi</i>). This paper concludes that Tanaka was interested in the characters and criticism of feudalism in the original play, but that she was dissatisfied with Chikamatsu's treatment of women. Thus, Tanaka emphasizes the importance of the spirit of women, and insists on the importance of breaking away from patriarchy. The play foreshadows the feminist movement in the 1960s in Japan.</p>
著者
平敷 尚子
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.43, pp.193-207, 2005-10-01 (Released:2018-12-14)

In 1958, TANAKA Sumie wrote a play, A Woman Who Beats the Drum (Tsuzumi no Onna), in which she imitated the structure of CHIKAMATSU Monzaemon's drama, The Drum of the Waves of Horikawa (Horikawa Nami no Tsuzumi). This paper concludes that Tanaka was interested in the characters and criticism of feudalism in the original play, but that she was dissatisfied with Chikamatsu's treatment of women. Thus, Tanaka emphasizes the importance of the spirit of women, and insists on the importance of breaking away from patriarchy. The play foreshadows the feminist movement in the 1960s in Japan.