Underground Theatre Company - Angura Shogekidan

...Young new theater companies such as "Tokyo Theater Ensemble" were also formed, and "Shiki" (officially called "Gekidan Shiki") was started by Asari Keita and other students from Keio University and Tokyo University. Many other new theater companies were founded and continued to operate, but in the late 1960s, doubts and protests against modern realistic theater and the existing theater companies became more common, and the established theater companies split up, giving rise to so-called "small underground theater companies." In 1963, Fukuda Tsuneari, Akutagawa Hiroshi and others left Bungakuza and founded the "Contemporary Theater Association," and founded "Kumo" (officially called "Gekidan Kumo") as an affiliated theater company, and also built the "300-person Theater" (Tokyo Sengoku) as a base theater. ...

*Some of the terminology used to refer to "underground theater companies" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…現，〈東京演劇アンサンブル〉)らの若手新劇団も結成され，浅利慶太ら慶応大学や東京大学の学生演劇出身者によって〈四季〉(正式名称は〈劇団四季〉)も活動を始めた。　そのほかにも多くの新劇団が創立され，活動するが，60年代後半になると近代写実演劇や既成劇団のあり方に対する疑義表明や異議申し立てが盛んになり，既成劇団の分裂が起こるとともに，いわゆる〈アングラ小劇団〉が輩出した。すなわち63年に福田恒存，芥川比呂志らが文学座を脱退し，〈現代演劇協会〉を設立，その付属劇団として〈雲〉(正式名称〈劇団雲〉)を創立し，拠点劇場としての〈三百人劇場〉(東京千石)も建設した。…

※「アングラ小劇団」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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