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Essay Question: How do we equate the dark and serious theatre of the 1960s in Japan with the lighter, fluffy theatre of the 1990s? Is this a fair description of both theatres? Are they part of the same movement? Are they simply a mirror to contemporary Japanese society? Shogeki-Jo, the little theatre movement of the 1960s, also called the underground (angura) theatre has formed the basis of contemporary theatre in Japan. This theatre developed in …

…of the community, theatre practitioner are trying to seek answers in the midst of all the confusions. Yet when the society is more stable, i.e. the expansion period of bubble economy, people rejoice into consumer luxury and security, even theatre practitioners cease to be critical and doubtful of the society. This thus reminds me the notion in Kawamura¡¦s Nippon Woozu, that even ¡§the ¡§the final lesson of rebellion¡¨ is a socially sanctioned dissidence.¡¨