Shōyō was also one of the founders of the shingeki ("new drama") movement, which introduced the plays of Henrik Ibsen and George Bernard Shaw to Japan and provided an outlet for modern plays by Japanese authors.
Apart from the work of such French writers as Becque and Eugène Brieux, Théâtre-Libre also introduced the plays of Ibsen, Strindberg, Hauptmann, and the Norwegian Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson.
November 3, 1744 Schwerin, Germany September 3, 1816 Rellingen, Germany Friedrich Ludwig Schröder, (born November 3, 1744, Schwerin, Mecklenburg [now in Germany] died September 3, 1816, Rellingen) German actor, theatrical manager, and playwright who introduced the plays of William Shakespeare to the German stage.
Because an AIDS diagnosis -- still sounding like a death sentence when Kushner introduced the play -- is now a chronic illness for the most part and because AIDS is so inherent to the drama, the "dated" tag could seem to hover over Angels in America as Prior's Angel floats ominously over him.
In one line, the reviewer has introduced the play, noted the play is a "classic" and told the reader it is a popular musical.
"We want to introduce the play to an audience who only knows it from the movie," Mr. Gabay said.
The director Michael Kahn employs an actor portraying Williams himself to introduce the plays, a faintly apologetic gesture.
"Opening Audience" introduces the play's conflict, "Inner Palace" shows the king meeting his queen(s), and in "Outer Audience" the army is dispatched.
I was less happy about the General Introduction, mainly because it seeks less to introduce the play to those who don't know it than to show to fellow scholars that the editors are up to date with recent writings about it.
