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髪をかきあげる

Kishida Kunio Drama Award

髪をかきあげる

Toshiro Suzue

A play by Toshiro Suzue. Through gestures born when unresolved feeling and the body call to one another, it explores emotions and distances between people that words alone cannot convey.

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Work Information

Including the gesture of pushing back one's hair that gives the play its title, bodily movement works alongside dialogue. The drama uses actors' gestures and pauses to show feeling before it becomes speech.

A play published by Hakusuisha in April 1996. First staged by Gekidan Hachijihan in 1995, it received the 40th Kishida Kunio Drama Award.

Book Information

Publisher
白水社
Published
1996-03-01
Pages
140 pages
Language
日本語
ISBN-13
9784560033821
ISBN-10
456003382X
Price
9700 JPY
Category
本/文学・評論/戯曲・シナリオ

「私のそばには人がいない」と、飯田トモヨさんはご機嫌ななめ。それでも「ホタル」の仄かな光に勇気づけられる登場人物たち……。ミニマルな装置に、キュートな台詞。やるせない思いとからだが呼びあうときに生まれるしぐさは言葉よりも豊かなことを気づかせてくれる第40回岸田國士戯曲賞受賞作。

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