The Lost Babylon

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ID14998613
AuthorsKawamura Takeshi (Kawamura Takeshi is a playwright and director, as well as Artistic Director of the theatre company Daisan Erotica, which he founded in Tokyo in 1980. He won the Kishida Playwright Award for the first volume of his Shinjuku Hakken-den (Eight Dogs of Shinjuku) in 1986. He has been invited to direct his plays in Germany, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Canada, the United States, and Australia. In 1998 he directed two plays by Mishima Yukio, Yoroboshi and Sotoba-komachi, at Tisch School of the Arts/NYU. His..., corresponding author), Sara Jansen (Sara Jansen is a PhD candidate in the Department of Performance Studies at Tisch School of the Arts/NYU. She is currently working on her dissertation focusing on Japanese postwar performance)
Year2000
Volume44
Issue1
Pages114-135
Publication date2000-03-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueTDR/The Drama Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1054-2043 • E-ISSN: 1531-4715
PublisherMIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1162/10542040051058942
OpenAlexW2059027842
LanguageEN

Kawamura Takeshi's play, set in a “for real” amusement park, explores the impulses to violence present in manga (comics), films, video games, and on the internet. According to Kawamura, this is “a new Japan where citizens will have to learn to defend themselves.” Act II is published in its entirety

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