Part I Contemporary Theatre in Japan
A Long Row of Graves: On FUKUDA Yoshiyuki's Play
2003 Volume 41 Pages 3-20
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2003 Volume 41 Pages 3-20
FUKUDA Yoshiyuki may be regarded as one of the pioneers of the Little Theatre Movement in Japan. In this paper I analyze his A Long Row of Graves (1957), and come to the conclusion that the play was a leap toward the Little Theatre Movement. However, it was still not innovative enough to be taken as the definitive start of the Little Theatre Movement. A year later FUKUDA confessed at a symposium, “I could not break the conventional thinking or the style of Realist Play of Shin-geki.” The analysis of the play also approves his confession.
