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Takeshi Kawamura
is a Japanese playwright and director.
He gained recognition in the 1980s for his popular-culture-influenced, violent, highly physical plays. Building upon this early work with later projects of social criticism and postmodern theatrical experimentation, Kawamura secured his position as an internationally recognized theatre artist. As artistic director of theatre companies Daisan Erotica and T Factory, Kawamura uses his plays to comment directly and indirectly on Japanese social conditions and current events while prompting audiences to consider issues such as the shaping influences of media, the confusion of reality with fantasy, and the nature of human individuality.
==1980s: Early work==
Born in Tokyo in 1959, Kawamura established his first company, Daisan Erotica, in 1980, while studying at Meiji University.〔(Program notes ) 2〕 Kawamura wrote, directed, and sometimes acted in the young company’s productions, which took inspiration from the Japanese angura (underground) theatre of the 1960s and 1970s and from Western and Japanese popular culture.〔Martin 109-110〕 Drawing upon and reacting to the work of such angura playwright/director/actors as Terayama Shūji, Suzuki Tadashi, and Kara Jūrō, Kawamura embraced their experimental focus and avant-garde physicality while rejecting their desire to reconcile the present with the past and their faith in social activism.〔 In drawing from angura, Kawamura also absorbed at second-hand the ideas of Western theatre artists, such as Antonin Artaud’s violent, irrational Theatre of Cruelty; Samuel Beckett’s wistful absurdism; and Bertolt Brecht’s desire to keep an audience aware and critical of theatrical and social artifice.〔Senda xvii〕 Other, direct Western influences included the films of directors like Ridley Scott ''(Blade Runner)''〔Senda 211〕 and Sam Peckinpah ''(The Wild Bunch, Straw Dogs).''〔Eckersall, “Japan” 104〕
Combining all of these influences, Kawamura’s early plays, created with Daisan Erotica, included ''Radical Party'' (1983), about a group of young, nihilistic male prostitutes, rebelling “in opposition to nothing whatsoever”;〔Senda 145〕 ''Genocide'' (1984), in which a young man steps into and becomes trapped in “the film he wishes he could see”;〔Senda 216〕 and ''Eight Dogs of Shinjuku: Volume 1, Birth of Dogs'' (1985), a deconstruction of a classic Japanese novel series, re-set in Shinjuku’s underground gay culture. ''Eight Dogs of Shinjuku'' won Japan’s premiere award for new plays, the Kishida Kunio Drama Award.;〔Eckersall, “Japan” 98〕 but an earlier play, ''Japan Wars,'' remains Kawamura’s most-referenced work in the Western world.
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