Theorizing the Angura Space: Avant-Garde Performance and Politics in Japan, 1960-2000

by Peter Eckersall

This is the first history of Japan's avant-garde underground theatre (angura) in a time of its most intense, creative, and original productions, viz. 1960-2000. It closely investigates the interrelationship of aesthetics and politics and explores contrasting examples of contemporary performance in relation to social context and cultural history. Part one considers the 1960s era of protest and theatrical invention. The second part examines theatre...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004151990
• ISBN13: 9789004151994
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.7"