Research Article
Play on the Borderline: Reading Red Demon written by Hideki Noda
2007 Volume 45 Pages 57-72
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2007 Volume 45 Pages 57-72
A play Red Demon written by Hideki Noda has been produced in four versions since its first performance in June, 1996.; in Japanese, Thai, English, and Korean. It seems this play has been effective for more than ten years. This paper examines the reason. This play keeps an exquisite “sense of distance with reality” to politics after 9.11. And the play expressed a kind of “de-borderline-ness”, showing us memory and history.
