ノダ　マナブ   Noda Manabu   野田　学    所属   明治大学  文学部    職種   専任教授
言語種別	英語
発行・発表の年月	2012/06
形態種別	学術雑誌
標題	Trying to Give Shape to an Unending End: Post-3/11 Theatre in Tokyo
執筆形態	単著
掲載誌名	Critical Stages (The IATC Webjournal)
巻・号・頁	(6)
概要	Many theatre people in Tokyo were in two minds about how we should touch on the post-3/11 situation in Japan. The sense of mourning and restraint was not the only deterrent. Theatre artists, as well as critics, are still torn between the visible and the invisible: the overwhelming and indelible images and scars of tsunami on the one hand, and the invisible threat of radioactivity on the other. On the top of that, we were keenly made to realize our political complacency about the danger of nuclear power plants -- something most of us had chosen not to face even after Hiroshima/Nagasaki, Three Mile Island, and Chernobyl. To our horror, the televised apocalyptic images of deluge seemed to have even theatrical impact. The tsunami-related devastation was so powerfully and obviously visible that it seemed at least to give some shape to the tragedy in contrast with the frustratingly unnamable and ungraspable opacity surrounding the meltdown in Fukushima. Hence our sense of guilt and inanity. This overview is an attempt to describe how Japanese theatre scene has tried to give shape to what is unnamable in stupor, indecisiveness, and suspension.