- Tenjō Sajiki
was a Japanese independent theater troupe led by Shuji Terayama. A major phenomenon on the Japanese underground scene, the group has produced a number of stage works marked by experimentalism, folklore influences, social provocation, grotesque eroticism and the flamboyant fantasy characteristic of Terayama's oeuvre.
Stage productions
(arranged by the year of premiere performance)
1967
* The Hunchback of Aomori (青森県のせむし男)
* The Crime of Fatso Oyama (大山デブコの犯罪)
* Mink Marie (毛皮のマリー, "La Marie-vison")
* Hanafuda denki (花札伝綺)1968
* Shinjuku Tales of 1001 Nights (新宿版千一夜物語)
* Bluebeard (青ひげ)
* 伯爵令嬢小鷹狩掬子の七つの大罪
* Farewell, cinema! (さらば映画よ)
* 瞼の母
* 昭和白虎隊外伝
* Throw away your books, rally in the streets! (書を捨てよ街へ出よう)
* The Little Prince (星の王子さま)1969
* Our age comes riding on a circus elephant (時代はサーカスの象に乗って)
* Inugami (犬神)
* The Crime of Dr. Caligari (ガリガリ博士の犯罪)1970
* Yes (イエス)
* Baron Burabura (ブラブラ男爵)
* Tokyo Year Zero (東京零年)
* Man-powered plane Solomon (人力飛行機ソロモン)1971
* Heretics (邪宗門)
* 地獄より愛を込めて1972
* Run, Melos! (走れメロス)
* The Opium War (阿片戦争)
* 人力飛行機ソロモンの組立て方1973
* 地球空洞説
* ある家族の血の起源
* Blind Man's Letters (盲人書簡)1975
* Knock (ノック)
* Chronicles of a Plague (疫病流行記)
* The Nail (釘)1976
* Ship of Fools (阿呆船)
* 引力の法則1977
* The Miraculous Mandarin (中国の不思議な役人)
1978
* Directions to Servants (奴婢訓)
* Shintokumaru (身毒丸)
* 観客席1979
* The Lemmings (レミング)
* こども狩り
* Duke Bluebeard's Castle (青ひげ公の城)1981
* One Hundred Years of Solitude (百年の孤独)
elected performances abroad
* 1969: "Inugami" and "La Marie-vison" in
Frankfurt .
* 1970: "La Marie Vison" at "La MaMa Experimental Theater Club" in New York, with American actors and highly original staging (Eleonore Lester, "There will be no audience", in "New York Times", July 5, 1970, p. 12). The audience had to visit the actors in separate rooms, and could not see the entire performance.
* 1971: "Heretics" and "Man-powered plane Solomon" at "Festival mondial de théâtre" in Nancy; "La Marie-vison" at Théâtre des Halles in Paris and "Heretics" at Mickery Theatre inAmsterdam and also inBelgrade .
* 1972: "Hanafuda denki" at Théâtre Pigalle in Paris; "Run, Melos!" at Spielstrasse in Munich and "The Opium War" at Mickery Theatre in Amsterdam.
* 1973: performances in Iran, the Netherlands and Poland.
* 1978: "Directions to Servants" at Mickery Theatre in Amsterdam.References
*Sorgenfrei, Carol Fisher. "Unspeakable Acts: The Avant-garde Theatre of Terayama Shuji And Postwar Japan." University of Hawaii Press (2005)
External links
* [http://imaginationtakeover.blogspot.com/2008/05/tenjo-sajiki-performances-on-ed2k.html Online media resources]
* [http://www.randomhouse.com/vintage/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780375705373&view=excerpt Ian Buruma on Tenjo Sajiki in Amsterdam]
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