Number 41. (2003)
Contemporary Japanese Theatre
Part I: Contemporary Theatre in Japan
- A long Row of Graves: On FUKUDA Yoshiyuki’s Play INOUE Yoshie
- “Make sense who may.”: The Influence of Samuel Beckett on BETSUYAKU Minoru’s Dramaturgy OKAMURO minako
- TSUKA Kôhei’s Beginner’s Course for Revolution Hiryûden : His Concept of History YUKI Sôichi
- Japanese Metatheatre: Toward the Demystification of the Little Theatre in the 1980s HIBINO Kei
- AMEYA Norimizu’s Theatrical Activities in the 1980s NAKANO Masaaki
- The Rise of “Quiet Theater” BOYD Mariko
- The Style of HIRATA Oriza: The Dramatic Structure of the “Quiet Theatre” MATSUMOTO Katsuya
- The Apocalypse in MATSUDA Masataka’s “Island” Plays DEGUCHI Ippei
- The Collapse of Theatre UNITA Momiichi
- Some Thoughts on the Little Theater Movement in Kansai KIKUKAWA Tokunosuke
Part II: Contemporary Theatre in Abroad
- Other Voices, Other Stage: A Historical Transformation of American Alternative Theatre ICHINOSE Kazuo
- German Plays after the New Theatre Movement in the 1970s
NIINO Morihiro
- British Fringe Theatres Today: A Report with Two Interviews ÔNO Hiroyuki
- The Cancellation of the Avignon Theatre Festival, Summer 2003 MATSUBARA Michitsuna
- 20 Years of the Experimental Theater in China IIZUKA Yutori
- Alternative Theatre of Southeast Asia: From the Post-colonial Age to the Present HATA Yuki
- Further Steps for the Research of Japanese “Little Theatre”: The Editor’s Note NISHIMURA Hiroko
50 Years of Kansai Branch: JSTR Colloquium 2002 on 50 Years of Kansai Theatre Opening Speech:
GONDÔ Yoshikazu
Lectuers
- 50 Years of Kansai Theatrei SUGA Yasuo
- My Kansai Theatre: From Kurumi-za to Department of Theatre Studies at Ôsaka University
YAMAZAKI Masakazu
Interviews
KATÔ Kei, FUJISAWA, Kaoru + KIKUKAWA Tokunosuke(Interviewer)
Symposium: Spectators and Theatres
KITAKURA Michiko, GONDÔ Yoshikazu, KUKI Yôko + HAYASHI
Kimiko(chair)
- Peter Shaffer’s Quest for God: The History of Revisions of Amadeus YAMADA Ryô
Editor: MÔRI Mitsuya +Guest editors of the special issue: NISHIMURA Hiroko