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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784979503321

Autore

Eckersall Peter

Titolo

Theorizing the Angura Space : Avant-garde Performance and Politics in Japan, 1960-2000 / / Peter Eckersall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden; ; Boston : , : BRILL, , 2006

ISBN

1-281-39957-4

9786611399573

90-474-0995-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (262 p.)

Collana

Brill's Japanese Studies Library ; ; 23

Disciplina

792.095209045

Soggetti

Experimental theater - Japan

Theater - Japan - History - 20th century

Theater - Political aspects - Japan

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. The 1960s space : performance and protest -- pt. 2. Culture after the bubble : performance and performativity -- pt. 3. Rethinking radical spaces in the Japanese avant-garde theatre.

Sommario/riassunto

This is the first history of Japan's avant-garde underground theatre ( angura ) in a time of its most intense, creative, and original productions, viz. 1960-2000. It closely investigates the interrelationship of aesthetics and politics and explores contrasting examples of contemporary performance in relation to social context and cultural history. Part one considers the 1960s era of protest and theatrical invention. The second part examines theatre in the 1980s, a time of unprecedented economic boom. The final section considers the work of four of the most important companies of the 1990s and explores how they are grappling with manifold new political and artistic challenges.