Kishida Kunio Drama Award きしだくにおぎきょくしょう
Edition 6 (1960)
Playwriting awardNurturing young playwrights
Winners
2 peopleA play set in a prison cell, where the closed routine of men with varied pasts begins to shift. Drawing on the author's imprisonment, it condenses postwar violence, memory, and responsibility.
Inside a closed cell, postwar wounds and responsibility find voice.
dramaprisonpostwar responsibility
A play by Hisako Hayasaka whose title evokes exchanged love poems and reciprocal feeling. Written by a playwright involved in theatre magazines as an editor, it turns relational nuance and inner movement into stage language.
Exchanged feeling creates a quiet theatrical tension.
dramalovepsychology