Ai Nagai
Ai Nagai was born in Tokyo, Japan on October 16th, 1951 and is the Japanese Playwright And Impresario. At the age of 72, Ai Nagai biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Nitosha continues to put works on stage as Nagai writes and directs them. Other organizations like the New National Theatre, Tokyo benefits from her works because she writes for them too. Nagai also used to be the president of the Japan Playwrights Association.
Nagai is active in other countries such as the United Kingdom, the United States, and South Korea. Her plays are also presented as staged readings. For example, on February 22, 2010, Japan Society in New York read the English translation of Women in a Holy Mess (片付けたい女たち, Katadzuketai on'na-tachi) in an English translation developed in late 2007.
Nagai's The Trilogy of Post-war Life (戦後生活史劇三部作, Sengo seikatsu shigeki sanbusaku) portrayed tough times faced by ordinary Japanese people as they evolve as a response to the turning points of Japanese history. Examples include the immediate aftermath of Japan's defeat in World War II, the high-growth period of Japanese economy, and the final period of campus riots in 1970 against the renewal of the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty
The trilogy consists of these three plays: Time's Storeroom (時の物置, Toki no mono oki), in which she depicts the first half of the 1960s; Daddy's Democracy (パパのデモクラシー, Papa no demokurashī), in which she depicts the period immediately after World War II; and My Tokyo Diary (僕の東京日記, Boku no Tokyō Nikki), in which she depicts life in the early 1970s. The characters in these works are not interrelated, but Nagai's approach is consistent because the postwar social issues and the plays' significance are portrayed by a particular family or by the events in an apartment building, their living conditions, and what they lost as Japan prioritizes the economic growth in the postwar period.
Nagai also connects Time's Storeroom (時の物置, Toki no mono oki) to another social change, the abolition of legal prostitution in 1958. The play illustrates ordinary people at the verge of the changes in life style and people's consciousness because of the rapid economic growth. She also illustrates the anti-Ampo movement that emerged among students at the 1970 renewal of the treaty ten years later.
Adapted from Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters, Nagai wrote The Three Hagi Sisters (萩家の三姉妹, Hagi-ke no san shimai) in 2000. The three main characters in Chekhov's play are reflected in Nagai's adaptation. Nagai transforms Chekhov's drama into a comedy. This adaptation confronts current feminist issues and brings to light the disparity between traditional expectations of men and of women. She also depicts the liberation from the socially constructed gender roles in a society that is deeply influenced by a division of labor, attitudes, and behavior by gender. Nagai's adaptation does not commend the old androcentric idea and the patriarchal perspective of families. Instead, it regards feminism with humor. While Japanese modern family dramas around the 1970s portray family breakdowns, Nagai's adaptation comically depicts the breakdown of the internal world of the sisters.
The play Time's Storeroom (時の物置, Toki no mono oki) has 14 scenes and is first staged in 1994 by the Nitosha Theatre Company. This play is also available in the English, Chinese, and Russian languages.
One of Nagai's most popular plays, Men Who Want to Make Them Sing (歌わせたい男たち, Utawasetai otoko-tachi) is a one-act play written in 2005. It is a social comedy depicting the Tokyo Board of Education's decision in 2003, in which teachers are punished if they fail to abide by the ruling to raise the flag and sing the national anthem at graduation ceremonies.
This play is first staged in 2005 by the Nitosha Theatre Company. The casts included Keiko Toda, Ryosuke Otani, Moeko Koyama, Masami Nakagami, and Yoshimasa Kondo. This play is available in the English language from the Nitosha Theatre Company.
Nagai's play Women in a Holy Mess (片付けたい女たち, Katadzuketai on'na-tachi) is "a hilarious portrayal of post-menopausal life" that portrays three women's lives and friendship. The play's English translation was developed by Kyoko Yoshida and Andy Bragen in late 2007 at The Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This is one of her plays that was read in front of an audience and featured American actors led by Cynthia Croot, a New York City theater director.