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Half a Century of Japanese Theater: The 1990s, Part 2 (review)

Half a Century of Japanese Theater: The 1990s, Part 2 (review) and so on) and floor plan of the nö stage would be useful. All in all, however, this unobtrusive and measured book lives up to its title: an easygoing and easy-to-use companion to kyögen old and new. If you're going to a kyögen performance, don't leave home without it. Jonah Salz Ryükoku University HALF A CENTURY OF JAPANESE THEATER: THE 1990s, PART 2. Edited by Japan Playwrights Association. Tokyo: Kinokuniya, 2000. ix + 421 pp. 4,000 yen. (Distributed by University of Hawai`i Press, $40.) Anthologies are a tricky business, especially when dealing with translated works that are virtually unknown to the target audience. How does the editor decide what to include, what postwar Japanese plays to eliminate? The appearance of a second volume of a planned series forces the question: why devote the first two volumes to the 1990s? The choice to publish in reverse chronological order is both intriguing and somewhat disturbing. It suggests a "presentist" (or antihistorical) perspective that may bewilder readers unfamiliar with postwar Japanese drama and history. One wonders if inclusion in these two volumes was a perk offered to members of the Japan Playwrights Association, the corporate editor. Moreover, not every decade will http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Asian Theatre Journal University of Hawai'I Press

Half a Century of Japanese Theater: The 1990s, Part 2 (review)

Sorgenfrei, Carol Fisher
Asian Theatre Journal , Volume 19 (1) – Mar 1, 2002
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and so on) and floor plan of the nö stage would be useful. All in all, however, this unobtrusive and measured book lives up to its title: an easygoing and easy-to-use companion to kyögen old and new. If you're going to a kyögen performance, don't leave home without it. Jonah Salz Ryükoku University HALF A CENTURY OF JAPANESE THEATER: THE 1990s, PART 2. Edited by Japan Playwrights Association. Tokyo: Kinokuniya, 2000. ix + 421 pp. 4,000 yen. (Distributed by University of Hawai`i Press, $40.) Anthologies are a tricky business, especially when dealing with translated works that are virtually unknown to the target audience. How does the editor decide what to include, what postwar Japanese plays to eliminate? The appearance of a second volume of a planned series forces the question: why devote the first two volumes to the 1990s? The choice to publish in reverse chronological order is both intriguing and somewhat disturbing. It suggests a "presentist" (or antihistorical) perspective that may bewilder readers unfamiliar with postwar Japanese drama and history. One wonders if inclusion in these two volumes was a perk offered to members of the Japan Playwrights Association, the corporate editor. Moreover, not every decade will

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