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ブレスレス/カムアウト

Kishida Kunio Drama Award

ブレスレス/カムアウト

Yoji Sakate

A play by Yoji Sakate that allegorically portrays urban anxiety in the bubble era through garbage bags, breath, and ritual-like groups. It links social issues to bodily sensation and became a representative early work of Rinkogun.

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Work Information

A nighttime ritual of breathing into garbage bags exposes the suffocation of the city.

First staged by Rinkogun in 1990, this play won the 35th Kishida Kunio Drama Award. It was collected in Breathless/Come Out: Plays by Yoji Sakate, with a new edition appearing in 2022.

Book Information

Publisher
而立書房
Published
1991-06-25
Pages
376 pages
Language
日本語
ISBN-13
9784880591520
ISBN-10
4880591521
Price
193 JPY
Category
本/文学・評論/戯曲・シナリオ

東京のゴミにことよせて、人間関係の稀薄さ、孤独を鋭く抉り出す第35回岸田戯曲賞受賞作「ブレスレス」のほか、同性愛を真正面から取り上げた「カムアウト」を収録する、待望の第一戯曲集。

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