Takeshi Kawamura’s Tokyo Trauma: Performing Gender and Sexuality

• Main Author: Pau, Toshi
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2021
• Subjects: performance; performativity; gender; sexuality; takeshi kawamura; tokyo trauma; japan; avant-garde; theater; queer; transgender; critical theory; Theatre and Performance Studies
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/akda/vol1/iss1/2; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/akda/article/1001/viewcontent/1_Pau_Tokyo_20Trauma_Akda_201_281_29.pdf
• Institution: De La Salle University

Japanese theater practitioner Takeshi Kawamura (1959-) has gone relatively unnoticed since writing and directing his own plays in the early 1980s. Despite success in the early years of his career, his politically charged works reminiscent of Western influences such as Antonin Artaud and Bertolt Brec...