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

Edition 40 (1996)

Playwriting awardNurturing young playwrights

Winners

2 people
Toshiro Suzue すずえ としろう award

A play by Toshiro Suzue. Through gestures born when unresolved feeling and the body call to one another, it explores emotions and distances between people that words alone cannot convey.

Including the gesture of pushing back one's hair that gives the play its title, bodily movement works alongside dialogue. The drama uses actors' gestures and pauses to show feeling before it becomes speech.

140 pages
body and languageexpression of emotiondistance between peoplegesture
Masataka Matsuda まつだ まさたか award

A play by Masataka Matsuda. When a wife collapses while her husband is away retrieving the parasol she forgot, it portrays their love and the quiet passage of days between the one who watches over and the one who is dying.

A play portraying a love known only between a husband and wife, and the feelings of those who remain and those who depart, within quiet daily time.

110 pages
marriageillnesscaregivingeveryday lifedeath