![]() ![]() The movement was very much a Japanese development which cultivated on Japanese soil even though it also received stimulation from the so-called international avant-garde. These and other experiments had a very real influence in Japan, but it would be wrong to conclude that it was foreign works that led to the birth of the Small Theatre Movement in Japan. It corresponded with many foreign influences such as the rise of the Off-Off-Broadway movement in New York, the productions of The Living Theatre, and Polish director Jerzy Grotowski's ideas of the importance of the body, who also had many of his writings translated into Japanese at the time. The Little Theatre Movement in 1960s Japan didn't arise from nothing. It was widely popular with the public because the new forms were more entertaining than enlightening, and did not require a high level of education to be enjoyed. The "Little Theatre" movement, also known as Angura, sought to free itself of the mainstream social norms and fixated on fantasy and dream versus the realistic portrayal of daily life of other theatrical forms. He later became a professor at Yokohama National University. Goodman, "Kara conceived his theatre in the premodern mold of kabuki-not the sanitized, aestheticized variety performed today, but the erotic, anarchic, plebeian sort performed during the Edo period (1600–1868) by itinerant troupes of actors who were rejected by bourgeois society as outcasts and 'riverbed beggars.' Emulating their itinerant forebears, Kara and his troupe performed throughout Japan in their mobile red tent." Kara won the Kishida Prize for Drama for Shojo kamen (The Virgin's Mask) in 1969, and the Akutagawa Prize for his novel Sagawa-kun kara no tegami in 1982. According to the theatre historian, David G. They began performing in a red tent in Hanazono Shrine in Shinjuku in 1967. Graduating from Meiji University, Kara formed his own theatre troupe, Jōkyō Gekijo (Situation Theatre), in 1963. He was at the forefront of the Angura ("underground") theatre movement in Japan. ![]() Jūrō Kara ( 唐十郎, Kara Jūrō, born Ōtsuru Yoshihide (大靏 義英) 11 February 1940) is a Japanese avant-garde playwright, theatre director, author, actor, and songwriter. Theatre director, playwright, actor, author, songwriter ![]()
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