"If there is a person who traced the history of theater in Japan by himself being present at an overwhelming number of the key performances, it is Senda. With his books in Japanese, such as Theatrical Renaissance: The Story of Contemporary Theater [Gekiteki runessansu: gendai engeki wa kataru] and many others since, Senda gives access to his immediate impressions of the shows, first published in the Asahi Newspaper as reviews. With J. Thomas Rimer’s translation, these journalistic accounts are now available to the Anglophone world."

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