Noda Manabu    Department   Undergraduate School  , School of Arts and Letters    Position   Professor
Date	2008/04/16
Presentation Theme	The Politics of Stage Violence in Japan Today
Conference	The 24th Congress of the International Association of Theatre Criticism: "Theatre and Humanism in a World of Violence" (Sofia, Bulgaria, 15-18 April 2008)
Promoters	Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Bulgaria, the International Association of Theatre Criticism
Conference Type	International
Presentation Type	Speech (General)
Contribution Type	Individual
Details	"To be justifiable, stage violence must strive to evoke the (not merely delectable) sense of pain on the part of the audience with a clear purpose of revising its perception of political power which enables it in the first place. The paper attempted to identify what is made possible through stage violence by analysing Hideki Noda's The Bee (2006) and Simon McBurney's Shunkin (2008)."