Kishida Kunio Drama Award きしだくにおぎきょくしょう
Edition 61 (2017)
Playwriting awardNurturing young playwrights
Winners
1 peopleSet in Osaka's Shinsekai district, this play turns a near future of drones, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality into a comedy of local warmth and Osaka speech. It fuses social satire about technology with the rough energy of a working-class neighborhood.
In a town where drones deliver food and AI enters shogi and comedy, old Shinsekai slips into a new world.
198 pages
near futureOsaka Shinsekaiscience-fiction comedytechnology and human warmthworking-class neighborhood