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Minoru Betsuyaku
was one of Japan's most prominent postwar playwrights, novelists, and essayists, associated with the Angura ("underground") theater movement in Japan. He won a name for himself as a writer in the "nonsense" genre and helped lay the foundations of the Japanese "theater of the absurd.""Artist Interview: Minoru Betsuyaku , Performing Arts Network Japan." Artist Interview: Minoru Betsuyaku , Performing Arts Network Japan. Performing Arts Network Japan, 16 Oct. 2007. Web. 01 May 2015. His works focused a lot on the aftermath of the war and especially the nuclear holocaust. Early life Minoru Betsuyaku was born in the Japanese colony of Manchuria in 1937. Betsuyaku's early years were difficult because in addition to experiencing severe deprivation during World War II, his father also died. In July 1946, a year after the sudden Soviet invasion of Manchuria, his mother succeeded in repatriating by ship with her children. Then the family moved to Sasebo in Kyushu and spent two years in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angura
, also known as the "Little Theater" (小劇場, ''shōgekijō'') movement, was a Japanese avant-garde theater movement in the 1960s and 1970s that reacted against the Bertolt Brecht, Brechtian modernism and formalist realism of postwar ''Shingeki'' theater in Japan to stage anarchic "underground" productions in tents, on street corners, and in small spaces that explored themes of primitivism, sexuality, and embodied physicality. The term "Angura" was an abbreviation of the Japanese phrase "underground theater" (アンダーグラウンド演劇, ''andaaguraundo engeki''). Major figures in the Angura movement included Shūji Terayama, Jūrō Kara, Makoto Satō (theater), Makoto Satō, Minoru Betsuyaku, Yoshiyuki Fukuda, and Tadashi Suzuki. Renowned graphic artist Yokoo Tadanori produced numerous promotional artworks for Angura productions, and helped co-found the Angura theater troupe Tenjō Sajiki. Background Angura emerged in the early 1960s, in reaction to the structural and i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
