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

Edition 17 (1972)

Playwriting awardNurturing young playwrights

Winners

1 people
Hisashi Inoue いのうえ ひさし award

A play that makes the Zen monk Dogen and a modern patient meet within dream logic. It unsettles religion, desire, and language through comic devices while keeping the physical energy of the stage.

Inside and outside the dream reverse, and questions of enlightenment turn comic and chaotic.

383 pages
Zendreamsdesirewordplayphilosophical comedy