Abstract:

One of Japan's leading playwrights and stage directors, Hirata Oriza (b. 1962) won the 2018 Tsuruya Nanboku Prize for his stage adaptation of Takahashi Gen'ichirō's (b. 1951) novel The Rise and Fall of Japanese Literature. In August 2019, Hirata gave a public lecture at the downtown Vancouver campus of Simon Fraser University that, in touching on this play, discussed the social and political forces behind Japan's creation of modern literature, theatre, and music since the Meiji Era (1868–1912). Hirata's talk was a kid-gloved punch at reactionary forces in Japan today that are attempting to quash freedom of expression. NOTE: In this review I follow the traditional order for Japanese names: family name first, followed by personal name.

摘要：

日本领先的剧作家和舞台导演之一，平田织里（生于 1962 年）凭借改编自高桥源一郎（生于 1951 年）的小说《日本文学的兴衰》的舞台剧获得了 2018 年鹤屋南北奖。2019 年 8 月，平田在西蒙弗雷泽大学温哥华市中心校区进行公开演讲，在谈到这部戏剧时，讨论了日本自明治时代（1868 年至 1868 年）以来现代文学、戏剧和音乐创作背后的社会和政治力量。 1912）。平田的讲话是对当今日本试图压制言论自由的反动势力的一拳。注意：在这篇评论中，我遵循日本名字的传统顺序：姓氏在前，个人名在后。