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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

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Makoto Ueda うえだ まこと award

Set 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