{"id":6284,"date":"2021-11-17T16:09:39","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T16:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecpr.org.uk\/?p=6284"},"modified":"2022-10-20T13:33:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T13:33:00","slug":"okada-toshiki-japanese-theatre-the-10th-publication-from-performance-research-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecpr.org.uk\/okada-toshiki-japanese-theatre-the-10th-publication-from-performance-research-books\/","title":{"rendered":"PR BOOKS 10TH TITLE Okada Toshiki &#038; Japanese Theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"<header id=\"masthead\" class=\"site-header\" role=\"banner\">\n<div class=\"site-branding\">\n<div class=\"shopping-menu\">\n<div class=\"menu-menu-shopping-container\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div id=\"content\" class=\"site-content\">\n<section id=\"woo-main\">\n<div id=\"product-6196\" class=\"product type-product post-6196 status-publish first instock product_cat-books has-post-thumbnail shipping-taxable purchasable product-type-simple\">\n<div class=\"summary entry-summary\">\n<p class=\"price\"><strong>Edited by Peter Eckersall, Barbara Geilhorn, Andreas Regelsberger and Cody Poulton<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"woocommerce-tabs wc-tabs-wrapper\">\n<div id=\"tab-description\" class=\"woocommerce-Tabs-panel woocommerce-Tabs-panel--description panel entry-content wc-tab\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"tab-title-description\">\n<p>Playwright, novelist and theatre director Okada Toshiki is one of the most important voices of the current generation of Japanese contemporary theatre makers. He founded his globally influential theatre company chelfitsch in 1997. Using a unique style and a distinctive language, his plays address issues such as social inequity, life in Japan after the 3\/11 Earthquake, and posthuman society. Okada is a theatrical visionary showing undercurrents in everyday moments and the strangeness of being alive in our time.<\/p>\n<p>In <em>Okada Toshiki and Japanese Theatre<\/em>, Okada\u2019s work and its importance to the development of contemporary performance in Japan and around the world is explored. Gathered here for the first time in English is a comprehensive selection of essays, interviews and translations of three of Okada\u2019s plays by leading scholars and translators. Okada\u2019s writing on theatre is also included, accompanied by an extensive array of images from his performances.<\/p>\n<p><em>The phenomenal success of Okada Toshiki\u2019s global productions has galvanized international critics into forming intriguing theoretical perspectives on his theatre. Acknowledging Okada\u2019s affinity to Japan\u2019s lost generation, Brechtian distantiation and Noh aesthetics, these critics have applied new conceptual frames such as the poetics of disarticulation, the poesis of liminality and slow dramaturgy to elucidate the deep structure of his performances.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/em>Mari Boyd, Professor Emeritus, Sophia University, Japan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tab-description\" class=\"woocommerce-Tabs-panel woocommerce-Tabs-panel--description panel entry-content wc-tab\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"tab-title-description\">\n<p>Purchase a copy <a href=\"https:\/\/thecpr.org.uk\/product\/okada-toshiki-japanese-theatre\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n\n<!-- Facebook Like Button v1.9.6 BEGIN [http:\/\/blog.bottomlessinc.com] -->\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fthecpr.org.uk%2Fokada-toshiki-japanese-theatre-the-10th-publication-from-performance-research-books%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height: 30px; align: left; margin: 2px 0px 2px 0px\"><\/iframe>\n<!-- Facebook Like Button END -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edited by Peter Eckersall, Barbara Geilhorn, Andreas Regelsberger and Cody Poulton Playwright, novelist and theatre director Okada Toshiki is one of the most important voices of the current generation of Japanese contemporary theatre makers. 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