Left Wing Theatre

Japanese: 左翼劇場 - さよくげきじょう

The name of the theater company. It stands for Tokyo Left Theater. In March 1928, when the All-Japan Proletarian Arts League (NAP) was founded, the Avant-Garde Theater and the Proletarian Theater merged to form the theater section of the league. In December of the same year, the national organization PLOT (Japan Proletarian Theater Alliance) was formed, and the group also played the role of its center. The core members were Sano Seki, Hisaita Eijiro, Kurahara Tadahito, Hayashi Fusao, Murayama Tomoyoshi, Sasaki Takamaru, Fujita Mitsuo, Sugimoto Ryokichi, and Ono Miyayoshi. They produced excellent plays such as "The Yakuza Chronicle" (1929), "A Town Without the Sun" (30), and "All Quiet on the Western Front" (31), and also created short plays dealing with current affairs entitled "The Living Newspaper" and "The Red Megaphone," and sent theater agents to workplaces. In 1951 it was renamed the Central Theater, and following Murayama's proposal for a new theater company called Daido Danketsu, it became the mainstream of the New Kyodo Theater Company, but it was dissolved in 1965 due to increasing repression by government authorities.

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Japanese:

劇団名。東京左翼劇場のこと。 1928年3月ナップ (全日本無産者芸術連盟) の結成を機に，その演劇部として，前衛劇場とプロレタリア劇場が合同して結成。同年 12月全国組織のプロット (日本プロレタリア劇場同盟) を結成，そのセンターの役割も果した。中心メンバーは佐野碩，久板栄二郎，蔵原惟人，林房雄，村山知義，佐々木孝丸，藤田満雄，杉本良吉，小野宮吉ら。『暴力団記』 (1929) ，『太陽のない町』 (30) ，『西部戦線異状なし』 (31) などすぐれた舞台をつくり上げ，また『生きた新聞』『赤いメガホン』と題する時事問題を扱う小形式を編出したり，さらに労働現場へ演劇工作員を派遣したりした。 34年中央劇場と改称し，さらに村山の新劇団大同団結の提唱を受けて新協劇団の主流を形成したが，それも政府当局の弾圧強化のため 40年に解散。

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