Fairy tale play

...From then until the Taisho period, theaters such as the Yurakucho Children's Day (Sundays and holidays) held performances for children, and specialized theater companies also began to appear. The names of fairy tale plays gradually became more modern, changing to fairy tale plays and then to children's plays, and while they were influenced in quality by modern plays, they also changed with the rise of the arts education movement. The playwriting activities of Osanai Kaoru, Kubota Mantaro, and others from the Taisho period to the early Showa period, as well as the development of children's theater theory by Tsubouchi Shoyo, greatly revitalized children's theater....

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Fairy Tale Drama" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…以後大正期にかけ〈有楽座子供日〉(日曜･祝日)などの劇場主体の子供むけ公演が持たれ，専門劇団も姿を見せるようになった。お伽芝居は〈お伽劇〉さらには〈童話劇〉と名称も段階的に近代性を持ち始め，質的にも近代劇の影響を受ける一方，芸術教育運動の高まりに乗って変容していった。大正期から昭和初期にかけての小山内（おさない）薫，久保田万太郎らの劇作活動，また坪内逍遥による児童演劇論の展開は，児童劇に大きな活性を与えた。…

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