Avant-garde theatre

Japanese: アバンギャルド演劇 - あばんぎゃるどえんげき
Avant-garde theatre


[What is avant-garde in theater?]
Avant-garde theater or avant-garde theater refers to innovative and experimental theater that breaks down the various accepted theatrical conventions of the time and seeks to pioneer new and unknown forms of expression. In principle, therefore, it is timeless, but usually the various innovative theatrical movements that emerged from the end of the 19th century to the 20th century onwards that were opposed to established theater are called "avant-garde" as one and the same thing, because of the common avant-garde spirit that can be recognized in them, even though they include differences in their individual ideological backgrounds and specific theatrical forms.

*Some of the terminology used in reference to "avant-garde theater" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:


[演劇における前衛とは何か]
 前衛劇あるいはアバンギャルド演劇とは,一つの時代に受け入れられているさまざまな演劇上の通念を打破し,新しい未知の表現を切り開こうとする革新的・実験的な演劇を指すものである。したがってそれは,原則的には時代を問わぬものであるが,普通は19世紀末から20世紀以降にあらわれた,既成の演劇に対するさまざまの革新的演劇運動を,個々の思想的背景や具体的な演劇形式の差異を含みつつも,そこに認められる前衛精神の共通性において,一つの同様のものとして〈前衛〉と呼ぶことが行われている。…

※「アバンギャルド演劇」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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