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

Edition 56 (2012)

Playwriting awardNurturing young playwrights

Winners

3 people
Seiji Nozoe のぞえ せいじ award

This play follows people facing parental divorce, job loss, and sudden collapse as they move through loss and searching, using chalk and drawable walls as a theatrical device. With humor and pain, it portrays people taking small steps forward even when trapped.

Within landscapes drawn in chalk, people who have lost something move forward a little.

159 pages
contemporary dramalossfamilyworksearching
Takahiro Fujita ふじた たかひろ award

This play layers memories of family and community around signals for returning home, waiting at the table, and a world scented with salt. Through intimate language and repeated bodily movement, it stages the desire for a place to return to and the time that has been lost.

Signals for returning home and memories of the table call up longing for a lost place.

200 pages
contemporary dramafamilyhomecomingmemorycommunity
Mikuni Yanaihara やないはら みくに award

Based on Shakespeare's Timon of Athens, this contemporary play depicts people struggling at rock bottom while still trying to live forward. Through the relationships among a wealthy recluse, a maid, and an apple farmer, it raises gestures of collapse and renewal.

A contemporary Timon in which people at rock bottom still raise a forward-looking cry.

173 pages
contemporary dramaShakespeare adaptationmisfortunerenewalphysical expression