Dr. Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei discusses three modern adaptations of the story of Lady Rokujō, examining both shifting theatrical styles and the zeitgeist of the plays’ specific cultural/historical moments in this lecture. They offer intriguing opportunities to interrogate how a cultural icon of the past is continually reinterpreted in the ever-transforming history of postwar Japan.
“An Endless River of Blood:” Theatricalizing Lady Rokujō from Nō to the Present