Performing female intimacy in Japan's Takarazuka Revue / Nobuko Anan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anan, Nobuko, 1973- author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in women theatre makers, 2634-2391.

Cambridge elements. Elements in women theatre makers, 2634-2391

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Takarazuka Kagekidan--History.

Takarazuka Kagekidan.

Women in the theater--Japan.

Women in the theater.

Revues--Japan--History and criticism.

Revues.

Musical theater--Japan.

Musical theater.

Women in the performing arts--Japan.

Women in the performing arts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (59 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2025.

Summary:

Japan's Takarazuka Revue is arguably the most commercially successful all-female theatre company in the world. Renowned for its glamour-laden staging of musicals and revues, the company's signature shows are heterosexual Western romances where women play both male and female roles. Since its audience consists almost entirely of women, Takarazuka creates a space for queer intimacy between performers and ardent female fans. This Element analyses the recent experimental show, The Poe Clan, directed by Koike Shūichirō, which portrays a male homoerotic relationship, argued as a façade for a queer, kin-like relationship between women. It also explores works by the female director Ueda Kumiko, which depict an anti-capitalist shared commons for female intimacy. These shows exhibit resistant girls' aesthetics, expressed in the company's two-dimensional performance style.

Contents:

Cover

Title page

Imprints page

Performing Female Intimacy in Japan's Takarazuka Revue

Contents

1 Gender and Sexual Conundrum of the Takarazuka Revue

1.1 Fantasy, That Is Takarazuka

1.2 Two-Dimensional Bodies of Takarasiennes

2 Female Queer Kinship and The Poe Clan

2.1 The Poe Clan and Shōnen-ai Manga

2.2 The Poe Clan and Koike Shūichirō

2.3 Queer Kinship of the Takarazuka Clan: Blood, Bond, and Poe

2.4 Performing Kin

3 Ueda Kumiko's Experiments: De-capitalizing TAKARAZUKA

3.1 BADDY: Is Heaven Not a Place on Earth?

3.2 The Watchword Is 'Shine': How Takarasiennes Work

3.3 'Yell for All the Women Who Have Been Suppressed'

3.4 Ōranki: Stream of Care

3.5 Concluding Reflections

Postscript

References

Acknowledgements.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-009-55499-9

1-009-55500-6

1-009-55501-4

OCLC:

1526229575