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

Edition 66 (2022)

Playwriting awardNurturing young playwrights

Winners

2 people
福名理穂 ふくな りほ award

Softly Swaying is a contemporary colloquial play by Riho Fukuna. Set in a provincial city in Hiroshima where the sound of a river is always present, it follows a family carrying loneliness, regret, and warmth as they move through everyday life marked by dependency and caregiving.

A contemporary colloquial play about a family living with dependency and caregiving in a provincial city haunted by the sound of a river.

194 pages
dramafamilyprovincial citydependencycaregivingloneliness
Suguru Yamamoto やまもと たくたく award

A play by Takutaku Yamamoto. A former con artist who calls himself a rotten banana forms ties with people he meets through a matching app, portraying those at society's margins struggling to change their future.

A play about encounter and connection among people at society's margins, exploring vulnerability, human feeling, and resistance toward the future.

190 pages
isolationfriendshipsocial marginsfuturehuman connection