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

Edition 49 (2005)

Playwriting awardNurturing young playwrights

Winners

2 people
Kankuro Kudo みやとう かんくろう award

A play in which an editor searches for a missing novelist as unease, comedy, and mystery keep shifting underfoot. Darkly comic dialogue and a sense of reality slipping out of joint drive the stage work.

A Kankuro Kudo play where comedy and unease roll forward at the same speed.

253 pages
playdark comedydisappearancetheater
Okada Toshiki おかだ としき award

Set during the Iraq airstrikes and antiwar demonstrations, this play follows young people spending days in a Shibuya hotel, capturing their speech and bodily presence. The realities of the city and politics seep into casual everyday language.

Over several days in Shibuya, world news overlaps with the felt reality of the body.

190 pages
contemporary theaterurban youthantiwar demonstrationseveryday speech