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Artistic Direction in Takechi Kabuki
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In the early postwar period, one man who sought to shake up the
Japanese theatre world was renegade critic and director Takechi Tetsuji
(1912-1988). Although Takechi worked in a number of theatrical idioms,
in the early 1950s much of his energy was directed at revitalizing
kabuki, both through his own productions known as Takechi Kabuki
and through his writings. The present essay, representative of
Takechi's work during the period, not only seeks to explain the goals
of Takechi Kabuki but also includes Takechi's insightful views
on kabuki history and what was wrong with the contemporary
kabuki of the time. For Takechi the heart of the matter was artistic
direction, which he claimed had been lost in modern kabuki and
therefore had to be reintroduced in order to turn kabuki into a
truly classical theatre.
Title: Artistic Direction in Takechi Kabuki
Description:
In the early postwar period, one man who sought to shake up the
Japanese theatre world was renegade critic and director Takechi Tetsuji
(1912-1988).
Although Takechi worked in a number of theatrical idioms,
in the early 1950s much of his energy was directed at revitalizing
kabuki, both through his own productions known as Takechi Kabuki
and through his writings.
The present essay, representative of
Takechi's work during the period, not only seeks to explain the goals
of Takechi Kabuki but also includes Takechi's insightful views
on kabuki history and what was wrong with the contemporary
kabuki of the time.
For Takechi the heart of the matter was artistic
direction, which he claimed had been lost in modern kabuki and
therefore had to be reintroduced in order to turn kabuki into a
truly classical theatre.
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