"Though it was first published over twenty years ago, David Goodman, a participant himself in the angura  (underground) theater movements of the 1960s, wrote this book that remains one of the most useful introductions in English to the theater of this period of upheaval and transformation, with translations of key plays. As a supplement, he also curated the exhibition Angura: Posters of the Japanese Avant-Garde, which remains in the form of a gorgeous catalogue of the graphic arts related to the theater of the time, an excellent survey full of clear and concise introductions. (In the 1960s, he was also a co-editor of the journal Concerned Theatre Japan.) He has continued to write thoughtful work on this period and drama in Japan ever since. A founder of the field."

Recommended by Miryam Sas, Professor of Comparative Literature and Film & Media and author of Experimental Arts in Postwar Japan.