長い墓標の列

――福田善之から〈小劇場演劇〉へ――

抄録

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.