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Kishida Kunio Drama Award きしだくにおぎきょくしょう

Edition 10 (1964)

Playwriting awardNurturing young playwrights

Winners

3 people
人見嘉久彦 ひとみ かくひこ award

"Tomoe no Tsuzumi" is a play by Kakuhiko Hitomi with performance records in the context of Kansai modern theater and troupe activity. As a Kishida Kunio Drama Award-winning work, it stands as a play that emerged from regional theater practice.

An award-winning play remembered through performance records from Kansai modern theater.

playmodern theaterKansai theaterperformance history
Ryuichi Suga すが りゅういち award

"Onna no Gongyo" is a play by Ryuichi Suga recorded as a recipient of the 10th Shin-geki Kishida Drama Award. Its title links religious practice with women's lives and embodied experience, placing it in the field of postwar modern theater.

An award-winning play that turns the practice of devotional recitation toward women's lives and inner experience.

playmodern theaterwomenreligious practice
Yoshiyuki Fukuda ふくだ よしゆき declined

A play by Yoshiyuki Fukuda. Drawing on the legend of the Heian-period bandit Hakamadare, it stages villagers waiting for deliverance under oppressive rule and sharply reveals the gap between popular hope and reality.

Through the shadow of a long-awaited outlaw, the play brings popular anger and longing into view.

dramaordinary peoplepowerlegend