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

Edition 69 (2025)

Playwriting awardNurturing young playwrights

Winners

2 people
安藤奎 あんどう けい award

You Don't Have to Walk to Hit a Stick is a situation-comedy play by Kei Ando. Set at an apartment building's garbage collection point, it follows rules spiraling out of control among a group of women as everyday conversation turns unsettling and comic.

A startlingly funny situation comedy in which rules run rampant at an apartment building's garbage collection point.

190 pages
dramacomedyeveryday liferulesapartment livingunease
笠木泉 award

A play by Izumi Kasagi. Three people working at Daikoku Pier in Kanagawa, burdened by unease and futility in their daily lives, find small hopes on the road to the sea and try to reach out to one another.

Centered on people who wake at five in the morning and set out for the sea, the drama brings three voices into resonance. Poetic language and quiet humor connect individual memories with a view across long spans of time.

190 pages
work and everyday lifethe sea and memoryhope and solidaritytime