Underground Theatre

Japanese: アンダーグラウンド演劇 - あんだーぐらうんどえんげき
Underground Theatre

… [Tetsuo Toshimitsu]
[New Theatre in Japan]
In Japan, the 1960s and 1970s, especially from 1967 to the first half of the 1970s, were a time of extremely vigorous activity in "new theater." Specifically, the activities of Kara Juro, Terayama Shuji, Suzuki Tadashi, Sato Makoto, and others, who often made the headlines in newspapers at the time as a kind of "incident" of morality, were collectively referred to by the mass media at the time as "underground theater," or, as is often abbreviated, "angura theater." The term "angura theater" was originally imported from English, but it seems to have been coined by journalists with the several underground theaters that did actually appear in mind, to capture the overall tendency of a group of new theater that, in its dramatic imagination, was more underground than daylight, and more anti-establishment than establishment, and the term gradually became established.

*Some of the terms used in reference to "underground theater" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…【利光 哲夫】
[日本における新しい演劇]
 日本においても1960年代・70年代,とくに67年以降70年代前半にかけては,〈新しい演劇〉の活動がきわめて活発に行われた時期であった。具体的には,当時の新聞紙上を一種の風俗的な〈事件〉としても賑わすことの多かった,唐十郎(からじゆうろう),寺山修司あるいは鈴木忠志(ただし),佐藤信(まこと)などの活動であるが,これらは当時,〈アンダーグラウンド演劇〉あるいはしばしば略して〈アングラ演劇〉などという名前で,マスコミに総称されていた。この〈アングラ演劇〉という名称は,もとをただせば英語からの移入であるが,実際にいくつか現れた地下劇場なども念頭に置いて,その劇的想像力の上で白昼的であるよりは地下的な,体制的であるよりは反体制的な,一群の新しい演劇の全体的傾向をとらえて,ジャーナリズムが命名を行い,しだいに定着していったものと思われる。…

※「アンダーグラウンド演劇」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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