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Performance Review Essay: Japanese Theatre in Los Angeles

Performance Review Essay: Japanese Theatre in Los Angeles reviews SHOCHIKU GRAND KABUKI--CHIKAMATSU-ZA. By Chikamatsu Monzaemon. Directed by Nakamura Ganjiro III. Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts, Los Angeles. 22 June 2005. BLOOD! LOVE! MADNESS! By Nakamura Kichizo, Kikuchi Kan, and Shimizu Kunio. Directed by Brent Hinkley. Ivy Substation, The Actors' Gang, Los Angeles. 14 October 2005. HIROSHIMA MAIDEN. Created by Dan Hurlin. REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theatre), Los Angeles. 5 November 2005. In Mark Jacobson's 1991 novel Gojiro, the eponymous lizard, clearly based on Töhö's Gojira (Godzilla), decides to attack and destroy Los Angeles, only to be defeated by the scope of the city: "It was the sprawl that did it, that L.A. whizzing by: the overwhelming sameness, the diffuse repetition. It dulled all passion, doused every fire. Ever spreading, the city was an amorphous sweep without a vital organ or center at which a determined Destroyer could aim . . . [I]n what amounted to a perfect defense against exactly the attack the monster envisioned, the town had no cherished emblem of itself beyond its very vagueness" (Jacobson 1991: 172). Unable to do to Los Angeles what it has done to Tokyo countless times, the monster instead capitulates to the seductions of the city http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Asian Theatre Journal University of Hawai'I Press

Performance Review Essay: Japanese Theatre in Los Angeles

Wetmore, Kevin J.
Asian Theatre Journal , Volume 26 (1) – Apr 1, 2008
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reviews SHOCHIKU GRAND KABUKI--CHIKAMATSU-ZA. By Chikamatsu Monzaemon. Directed by Nakamura Ganjiro III. Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts, Los Angeles. 22 June 2005. BLOOD! LOVE! MADNESS! By Nakamura Kichizo, Kikuchi Kan, and Shimizu Kunio. Directed by Brent Hinkley. Ivy Substation, The Actors' Gang, Los Angeles. 14 October 2005. HIROSHIMA MAIDEN. Created by Dan Hurlin. REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theatre), Los Angeles. 5 November 2005. In Mark Jacobson's 1991 novel Gojiro, the eponymous lizard, clearly based on Töhö's Gojira (Godzilla), decides to attack and destroy Los Angeles, only to be defeated by the scope of the city: "It was the sprawl that did it, that L.A. whizzing by: the overwhelming sameness, the diffuse repetition. It dulled all passion, doused every fire. Ever spreading, the city was an amorphous sweep without a vital organ or center at which a determined Destroyer could aim . . . [I]n what amounted to a perfect defense against exactly the attack the monster envisioned, the town had no cherished emblem of itself beyond its very vagueness" (Jacobson 1991: 172). Unable to do to Los Angeles what it has done to Tokyo countless times, the monster instead capitulates to the seductions of the city

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Published: Apr 1, 2008

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