Who is the playwright who wrote the play that Sakura no Sono's story focuses on?
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Sakura no Sono Sakura no Sono (櫻の園 , literally "Cherry Blossom Garden") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akimi Yoshida. It was serialized from 1985 to 1986 in Hakusensha's manga magazine LaLa. The story focuses on individuals from a drama club that are putting on the play "The Cherry Orchard".
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The Cherry Orchard The Cherry Orchard (Russian: "Вишнëвый сад" , "Vishnevyi sad " ) is the last play by Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. Written in 1903, it was first published by "Znaniye" (Book Two, 1904), and came out as a separate edition later that year in Saint Petersburg, via A.F. Marks Publishers. It opened at the Moscow Art Theatre on 17 January 1904 in a production directed by Konstantin Stanislavski. Chekhov described the play as a comedy, with some elements of farce, though Stanislavski treated it as a tragedy. Since its first production, directors have contended with its dual nature. It is often identified as one of the three or four outstanding plays by Chekhov, along with "The Seagull", "Three Sisters", and "Uncle Vanya".
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Minoru Betsuyaku Minoru Betsuyaku (別役 実 , Betsuyaku Minoru , born 1937) is one of Japan's most prominent postwar playwrights, novelists, and essayists. He won a name for himself as a writer in the "nonsense" genre and has helped lay the foundations of the Japanese "theater of the absurd." His works focused a lot of the aftermath of the war and especially the nuclear holocaust.
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Kan Kikuchi Hiroshi Kikuchi (菊池 寛 , Kikuchi Hiroshi , December 26, 1888 – March 6, 1948) , known by his pen name Kan Kikuchi (which uses the same kanji as his real name), was a Japanese author born in Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan. He established the publishing company Bungeishunjū, the monthly magazine of the same name, the Japan Writer's Association and both the Akutagawa and Naoki Prize for popular literature. He came to prominence for the plays "Madame Pearl" and "Father Returns", but his ample support for the Imperial Japanese war effort led to his marginalization in the postwar period. He was also the head of Daiei Motion Picture Company (currently Kadokawa Pictures). He is known to have been an avid player of Mahjong.
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Edward the King (play) Edward The King is a 2008 two-act play by American playwright David Brendan Hopes. The play is an adaptation of Christopher Marlowe's play "Edward II", which in turn is a dramatization of the real-life story of Edward II of England.
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Kishida Prize for Drama The Kishida Prize for Drama (岸田國士戯曲賞 , Kishida Kunio Gikyokushō ) is a Japanese theater award given by the publisher Hakusuisha in honor of the playwright Kunio Kishida. It was begun in 1955 to honor new playwrights, and is known in Japan as the gateway to recognition for contemporary playwrights.
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Kaoru Morimoto Kaoru Morimoto (森本 薫 , Morimoto Kaoru , 1912–1946) was a Japanese playwright, director, translator, and actor. He is famous for his critically acclaimed play, "A Woman's Life" ("Onna no isshō"), one of Japan's most frequently staged plays post World War II. Morimoto's work was most popular during the post-war period but his plays are still read and performed today. He was born in Osaka, Japan in 1912 and later moved to Kyoto where he received a degree in English literature from Kyoto University in 1937. Morimoto died in 1946 after a long battle with tuberculosis.
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Konparu Zenpō Konparu Zenpō (金春 禅鳳 , 1454–1520?) was a Japanese Noh actor and playwright of the Konparu school. He was the grandson of Konparu Zenchiku. Zenpō's plays were more popular and dramatic, novel and crowd-pleasing with large casts and more elaborate effects and sets, than the plays of his grandfather's, or his great-grandfather Zeami's, although he did have an appreciation of yugen and wabi (Zenpō was a pupil of Shuko and quoted him as saying "The moon not glimpsed through rifts in clouds holds no interest").
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Liu Qingyun Liu Qingyun (; 1841 – 1900), courtesy name Guxiang, was a Chinese playwright and poet. She has been described as "the most prolific woman playwright of the nineteenth century".
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Nakamura Shichinosuke II Nakamura Shichinosuke II (二代目 中村 七之助 , Nidaime Nakamura Shichinosuke ) (b. May 18, 1983) is a Japanese Kabuki, theatre, TV, and film actor. He was born Takayuki Namino (波野 隆行 , Namino Takayuki ) , the second son of famed Kabuki performer, Nakamura Kanzaburō XVIII. Unlike many kabuki actors, who specialize in a single type of role, Shichinosuke plays both male ("tachiyaku") and female ("onnagata") parts.
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Akimoto Matsuyo Akimoto Matsuyo (秋元松代 , 2 January 1911 – 24 April 2001) was one of Japan's leading women playwrights of post war Japan, she was considered to be a women who was most respected as a realist Japanese playwright.
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Rinzō Shiina Rinzō Shiina (椎名 麟三 "Shiina Rinzō"; born 大坪 昇 "Noboru Ōtsuka"; 1 October 1911 – 28 March 1973) was a Japanese writer, novelist, short story writer and playwright.
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Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜), or Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry Trees, is a Japanese play, one of the three most popular and famous in the Kabuki repertoire. Originally written in 1747 for the jōruri puppet theater by Takeda Izumo II, Miyoshi Shōraku and Namiki Senryū I, it was adapted to kabuki the following year.
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Spring Storm Spring Storm is a 1937 play written by American playwright Tennessee Williams. Tennessee Williams wrote "Spring Storm" when he was twenty-six years old, in 1937, while studying as an apprentice. "Spring Storm" received poor reviews in Williams’s playwriting course, and it did not receive its first production until 1995 in Berkeley, California. The European premiere took place at the Royal & Derngate Northampton on 15 October 2009, running alongside "Beyond the Horizon" by Eugene O'Neill. Both productions subsequently transferred to the Royal National Theatre in 2010 to the Cottesloe Theatre. Written and rewritten between 1937 and 1938, this full-length play depicts life and conflicted love in a small Mississippi Delta town during the Great Depression.
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Masao Kume Masao Kume (久米 正雄 , Kume Masao , 23 November 1891 – 1 March 1952) was a Japanese popular playwright, novelist and "haiku" poet (under the pen-name of "Santei") active during the late Taishō and early Shōwa periods of Japan. His wife, and the wife of Nagai Tatsuo were sisters.
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Tang Xianzu Tang Xianzu (; September 24, 1550 – July 29, 1616), courtesy name Yireng (義仍), was a Chinese playwright of the Ming Dynasty.
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A Woman's Life A Woman's Life ("Onna no isshō", 1945), is the most famous play by Kaoru Morimoto and was the most frequently staged play during postwar Japan. Consisting of seven scenes and five acts, "A Woman's Life" tells the story of Kei as she grows from a young girl into a successful businesswoman. The play was commissioned as propaganda by the Japanese military in 1945 and was first staged later that year by the Literary Theatre (Bungakuza). Before passing away, Morimoto rewrote the first and last scenes in order for the play to remain relevant after the war.
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Alex Oates Alex Oates (born Newcastle, 1987) is an English playwright from the North East.
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The Love Suicides at Amijima The Love Suicides at Amijima ("Shinjū Ten no Amijima" or "Shinjūten no Amijima" 心中天網島) is a domestic play ("sewamono") by Japanese playwright Chikamatsu Monzaemon. Originally written for the "jōruri" puppet theatre, it was adapted into kabuki shortly after its premiere. The play is one of Chikamatsu's more famous plays.
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Soraya Saga Kaori Tanaka (田中 香 , Tanaka Kaori , born April 18, 1969) , also known by her pen name, Soraya Saga (嵯峨 空哉 , Saga Soraya ) , is a freelance Japanese illustrator, designer, and video game story writer.
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The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail (虎の尾を踏む男達 , Tora no O o Fumu Otokotachi , alternatively They Who Step on the Tiger's Tail) is a 1945 Japanese period drama film, written and directed by Akira Kurosawa. It is based on the kabuki play "Kanjinchō", which is in turn based on the Noh play "Ataka".
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Michael Chiang Michael Chiang (born 27 October 1955 in Muar, Malaysia) is a prolific playwright and screenwriter in Singapore. He is known as "Singapore’s most famous and successful playwright".