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Kishida Theater Award きしだえんげきしょう

Edition 1 (1954)

Play

Winners

2 people

Furo is a play by Junji Kinoshita. Set in the turbulent early Meiji period, it depicts people caught between old orders and new ideas, community and individual conscience. It is a major modern realist drama by a writer also known for folk plays, and it received the first Kishida Theater Award.

People exposed to the waves of historical change confront the weight of ideals and reality.

339 pages
post-Restoration Japanmodernizationideological conflictcommunitypostwar theater

Nigo is a four-act play by Iizawa Tadasu, first staged by Bungakuza in 1954. Through satire and comedy, it brings out contradictions hidden in social institutions and relations between men and women, and it received the first Kishida Theater Award.

An award-winning play by Iizawa Tadasu that uses satirical laughter to illuminate postwar social systems and gender relations.

614 pages
satirical comedyshingekigender relationspostwar societyBungakuzaKishida Theater Award