Have you seen the "New Play" recently? I haven't seen it for ten years now. Even though young people say "new drama", it has become commonplace to get them to know only when they say "the name of the theater company" and the affiliation of the actor on TV. . Tsukiji Small Theater, which has become the "source of all post-war new dramas" such as "Literature Theater", "Actor Theater", and "Meigaku", which are still active, opened on June 13, 90 years ago.
Now, a lecture entitled "Thinking about Modern Theater from the 90th anniversary of the founding of Tsukiji Small Theater" is being held at Chuo Kumin College. The coincidence that the second day is just the opening date of 90 years ago. As you all know, Kaoru Osanai, who was already well-known, opened with the aim of becoming a `` permanent hall for theater laboratory theater drama, a playhouse for the people '' as being involved in the heat of young Yoshi Hijikata . The first performance is three works: "Swan Song" (Chehof), "Sea Battle" (galing), and "Crest Day" (Mazoo). You can see the names of Akiko Tamura and Korenari Senda in the program. Directed by Kaoru Osanai and Yoshi Hijikata. It became a base for new theater activities as an experimental site for modern theater, but three months after Kaoru Osanai died suddenly in December 1928, the Tsukiji Small Theater splits. The activities of the Tsukiji Small Theater ended in just five years, and after that, the buildings of the theater were burned down at the end of the war in 1945. However, it goes without saying that the Tsukiji Small Theater had produced many human resources who were active in the theater world, became the roots of the existing theater company, and "all sources of post-war new drama" was located at this Tsukiji Small Theater. Professor Kodama of Waseda also mentioned, but the characteristic of Japanese theater is that "genre accumulates-layering". When a new theater is born, the previous theater does not disappear, but each one continues to live-a rare phenomenon in the world. This is why we can now enjoy theaters of various genres. Is this why we can't "dispose"? After a long absence, I came to see the "Monument of Tsukiji Small Theater Ruins" and thought about something stupid. Why don't you think about the theater people who founded a passionate passion for the 90th anniversary and dedicated it to theater activities?
"Monument of Tsukiji Small Theater Ruins" 2-11-17 Tsukiji Building Wall of NTT DATA Tsukiji Building
