Japanese Theatre And The International Stage

Author : Stanca Scholz-Cionca,Samuel Leiter
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-04
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9789004483057

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Japanese Theatre and the International Stage by Stanca Scholz-Cionca,Samuel Leiter Pdf

This well-illustrated work is the first attempt to bridge the gap between several specialized discourses concerning Japanese theatre. Central are problems of scholarly and practical reception of Japanese theatre forms in the West. The essays by a careful selection of internationally well-reputed scholars range widely through Japanese theatre, from the ancient to the postmodern, or, one might say, from kagura to angura. It deals with reception of Japanese theatre in the West, the treatment of the body in stage art and drama, Western influence, the impact of Japanese theatre practice and theory upon the actor’s training, and stage directing in the West. Readers will come across a wide variety of intriguing topics, such as lion dances, kabuki, nôh, folk theatre, taishu engeki, and several important modern playwrights, etc. This book truly promises to intensify future dialogue between the many disciplines concerned with Japanese theatre.

Author : Samuel L. Leiter
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781442239111

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Historical Dictionary of Japanese Traditional Theatre by Samuel L. Leiter Pdf

Historical Dictionary of Japanese Traditional Theatre is the only dictionary that offers detailed comprehensive coverage of the most important terms, people, and plays in the four principal traditional Japanese theatrical forms—nō, kyōgen, bunraku, and kabuki—supplemented with individual historical essays on each form. This updated edition adds well over 200 plot summaries representing each theatrical form in addition to: a chronology; introductory essay; appendixes; an extensive bibliography; over 1500 cross-referenced entries on important terms; brief biographies of the leading artists and writers; and plot summaries of significant plays. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Japanese theatre.

Author : Ronald Cavaye,Paul Griffith,Akihiko Senda
Publisher : Kodansha
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 477002987X

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A Guide to the Japanese Stage by Ronald Cavaye,Paul Griffith,Akihiko Senda Pdf

Japan has a wide range of unique, highly refined performing arts that haveeveloped over centuries. This guide provides a brief history andntroduction to the features of each genre, together with recommendations oflays that are accessible to non-Japanese audiences. Brief synopses arerovided to approximately fifty selected plays, and well-known popularompanies, actors, writers, and directors are introduced. The text is widelyllustrated, and includes information about theatre listings, how to getickets, and which plays are available on DVD. It will be invaluable fornyone planning a visit to Japan and keen to experience its theatre firsthand,s well as providing additional insights for students of Japanese theatrend literature.

Author : Takashi Sasayama,J. R. Mulryne,Margaret Shewring
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521470438

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Shakespeare and the Japanese Stage by Takashi Sasayama,J. R. Mulryne,Margaret Shewring Pdf

Leading Japanese and Western Shakespeare scholars study the interaction of Japanese and Western conceptions of Shakespeare.

Author : Benito Ortolani
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780691043333

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The Japanese Theatre by Benito Ortolani Pdf

From ancient ritualistic practices to modern dance theatre, this study provides concise summaries of all major theatrical art forms in Japan. It situates each genre in its particular social and cultural contexts, describing in detail staging, costumes, repertory and noteworthy actors.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1997-03-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780824865160

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The Voyage of Contemporary Japanese Theatre by Anonim Pdf

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.

Author : Faubion Bowers
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-08
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781462912186

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Japanese Theatre by Faubion Bowers Pdf

Japanese Theatre presents a full historical account for Westerners of the theater arts that have flourished for centuries in Japan. Kabuki, arising in the late seventeenth century, is the theater of the commoner. The successive syllables of Kabuki mean "song – dance – skill." The precursors of Kabuki were the puppet theater and the comic interludes in the stately, aristocratic Noh drama – all fully described by the author. In the modem era the Japanese have broken away from Kabuki, and their stage has shown a realistic trend. Left–wing theater groups arose in the 1920’s, were suppressed by the militarists, and then revived during the occupation. Appended to the historical chapters are Mr. Bowers's translations of three Kabuki plays: The Monstrous Spider, Gappo and His Daughter Tsuji, and the bombastic Sukeroku. This book, with its many excellent photographs, is a permanent addition to the West's knowledge of the exotic, exciting theater of Japan and its tradition of great acting.

Author : Earle Ernst
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1974-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0824803191

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The Kabuki Theatre by Earle Ernst Pdf

Studies the production and psychology of this Japanese drama form and compares its techniques with those of the Western theater

Author : Jonah Salz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1108458165

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A History of Japanese Theatre by Jonah Salz Pdf

Japan boasts one of the world's oldest, most vibrant and most influential performance traditions. This accessible and complete history provides a comprehensive overview of Japanese theatre and its continuing global influence. Written by eminent international scholars, it spans the full range of dance-theatre genres over the past fifteen hundred years, including noh theatre, bunraku puppet theatre, kabuki theatre, shingeki modern theatre, rakugo storytelling, vanguard butoh dance and media experimentation. The first part addresses traditional genres, their historical trajectories and performance conventions. Part II covers the spectrum of new genres since Meiji (1868-), and Parts III to VI provide discussions of playwriting, architecture, Shakespeare, and interculturalism, situating Japanese elements within their global theatrical context. Beautifully illustrated with photographs and prints, this history features interviews with key modern directors, an overview of historical scholarship in English and Japanese, and a timeline. A further reading list covers a range of multimedia resources to encourage further explorations.

Author : Francis Haar,Earle Ernst
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781462913114

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Japanese Theatre in Highlight by Francis Haar,Earle Ernst Pdf

Words cannot explain to an outsider the sight and feel of the Japanese stage. And definitions and descriptions do not convey an exact image to people brought up on a concept of the theatre that differs so greatly from the Japanese as ours. In seeing something foreign, too, our eyes must be guided carefully, so that we know what we are seeing and how to look at it profitably. All of us are to be grateful for this book, because now, without leaving our countries, or for that matter our armchairs, we can peer at leisure into expertly selected, edited and glossed highlights of the three great classical theatre arts of Japan-Noh, Bunraku and Kabuki. The Fifty-four ensuing photographs, with their textual commentary, are the equivalent, in my mind, of fifty-four choice seats at some of the best performances in modern Japan and intimate visits backstage.

Author : M. Tian
Publisher : Springer
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137010438

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Mei Lanfang and the Twentieth-Century International Stage by M. Tian Pdf

The first book-length study in any language of the presence and influence of Mei Lanfang, the internationally known Chinese actor who specialized in female roles on the twentieth-century international stage. Tian investigates Mei Lanfang's presence and influence and the transnational and intercultural appropriations of his art.

Author : Samuel L. Leiter
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781666926798

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Meiji Kabuki by Samuel L. Leiter Pdf

A 2023 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Title This book is an annotated collection of English-language documents by foreigners writing about Japan’s kabuki theatre in the half-century after the country was opened to the West in 1853. Using memoirs, travelogues, diaries, letters, and reference books, it contains all significant writing about kabuki by foreigners—resident or transient—during the Meiji period (1868–1912), well before the first substantial non-Japanese book on the subject was published. Its chronologically organized chapters contain detailed introductions. Twenty-seven authors, represented by edited versions of their essays, are supplemented by detailed summaries of thirty-five others. The author provides insights into how Western visitors—missionaries, scholars, diplomats, military officers, adventurers, globetrotters, and even a precocious teenage girl—responded to a world-class theatre that, apart from a tiny number of pre-Meiji encounters, had been hidden from the world at large for over two centuries. It reveals prejudices and misunderstandings, but also demonstrates the power of great theatre to bring together people of differing cultural backgrounds despite the barriers of language, artistic convention, and the very practice of theatergoing. And, in Ichikawa Danjuro IX, it presents an actor knowledgeable foreigners considered one of the finest in the world.

Author : Shigetoshi Kawatake,Kokusai bunka shinkokai, Tokyo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : Japanese drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010599350

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Development of the Japanese Theatre Art by Shigetoshi Kawatake,Kokusai bunka shinkokai, Tokyo Pdf

Author : Ian Carruthers,Yasunari Takahashi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2004-07-29
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521590248

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The Theatre of Suzuki Tadashi by Ian Carruthers,Yasunari Takahashi Pdf

Suzuki is Japan's best-known director. He has been internationally acclaimed for his postmodern adaptations of classics by Nanboku, Euripides, Shakespeare and Chekhov since the 1970s, including The Trojan Women, King Lear and Three Sisters and, equally, for his powerful actor training system, which combines elements of Noh and Kabuki with Western realism. Inviting artists from around the world to perform at his Toga and Shizuoka International Festivals, Suzuki has fostered productive exchanges with Jean-Louis Barrault, Robert Wilson, Kanze Hisao, Ashikawa Yoko and numerous others. This 2004 book traces Suzuki's rise from Little Theatre director to international festival celebrity, links his unique Surrealist dramaturgy with his intercultural training system, and gives in-depth descriptions of his most acclaimed productions.

Author : James R. Brandon,Samuel L. Leiter
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2002-06-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780824844752

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Kabuki Plays On Stage. Volume 3 by James R. Brandon,Samuel L. Leiter Pdf

Darkness and Desire, 1804-1864, is the third volume in a monumental new series-the first collection of kabuki play translations to be published in nearly a quarter of a century. Fifty-one plays, published in four volumes, vividly trace kabuki's changing relations to Japanese society during the premodern era. The fourteen plays translated in Volume 3, Darkness and Desire, 1804-1864, mark an extreme point in the development of kabuki dramaturgy. The plays are remarkable, even within kabuki, for their intense theatricality, gutsy individualism of character, cold-blooded and ferocious violence, realism pushed into fantasy and grotesquery, novelty for its own sake, sexual aggressiveness, and assertion of female will. The plays depict a society in extremis, the end of an era, a time often marked by unmitigated darkness and desire.