Kishida Kunio Drama Award きしだくにおぎきょくしょう
Edition 63 (2019)
Playwriting awardNurturing young playwrights
Winners
1 peopleShuntaro Matsubara's Yama Yama is a play set against the post-disaster landscape after the Great East Japan Earthquake and nuclear accident, portraying a family living between a beautiful mountain and a mountain of contaminated material. Its monologue-like language gives allegorical shape to labor, love, life and death, and representation.
Between a beautiful mountain and a dark one, a family's words expand the world after disaster.
180 pages
post-disaster Japannuclear accidentfamilycontemporary drama