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

Edition 36 (1992)

Playwriting awardNurturing young playwrights

Winners

1 people
Kensuke Yokouchi よこうち けんすけ award

The Naked King of La Mancha Invisible to Fools overlays The Emperor's New Clothes with Don Quixote, bringing reality and fantasy together through the encounter between a wounded king and Sancho Panza. Borrowing the lightness of fable, the play asks about war, power, and emotional recovery.

When the naked king meets Sancho Panza, laughter begins to illuminate a wounded heart.

134 pages
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