Kishida Kunio Drama Award きしだくにおぎきょくしょう
Edition 40 (1996)
Winners
2 peopleA 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.
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.