Tokyo Metropolitan PrefectureShinjuku-ku
Can drama tell about war experiences? -From Japanese drama 80 years after the war-
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2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. Similar to literature, movies, etc., many works based on war have been created during this time in the theater genre. Due to its characteristics, plays cannot necessarily depict disastrous scenes of war with movie-like realism or novel-like detail. That's why playwrights have sought dramaturgy that allows us living after the war to access memories of the war, making use of the effects of suggestion from stage design and the strength of theater where the lines uttered by the actors also ask sharp questions to the people in the audience.
In this exhibition, materials such as performance posters, play manuscripts, stage design models, and performance footage are introduced along with explanations of the contents of theatrical works, and unravels how the experience of World War II has been described and represented in Japanese theatrical works.
Chapter 1: War Dramas of the “Generation of Involved Parties”
Chapter 2: Representation or Impossibility of Representation of the Atomic Bomb
Chapter 3 “The Burnt Remains Generation” drama Man and the Shadow of War
Chapter 4: War Seen from Various Perspectives
Chapter 5: Okinawa and the Never-Ending War
※Chapter 5 Exhibited Works
Chinen Masazane “Human Center”
Uchimori Roba “Kimun Utari Okinawa 1945”
Gakuji Awa and Seiichiro Kuniyoshi “9 Lost Okinawans ~After '72~”
Fujita Takayoshi “Cocoon” “Light House”
Takuya Kaneshima “Waiting with Rycom”
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Waseda University Drama Museum
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