Waseda Daigaku. Ōkuma Kinen Kōdō. Playbill from Okuma Memorial Hall, Tokyo, Japan, 1954

Folger bibliographic ID: 354470
Folger call number: BILL Box Z5 T7oh 1954 item 3
Folger holdings ID: 502683
Accession Number: No case or accession number present

Playbill from the Okuma Memorial Hall for November 12-14, 1954. Advertises a production of Shōyō Tsobouchi's translation of Shakespeare's Comedy of errors, performed by the theater company Kindai Gekijo under the direction of Chōji Kato. (Kindai Gekijo had previously performed Tsobouchi's translation of Comedy of errors at Okuma Hall in 1951 (cf. Milward in Comedy of errors: critical essays).)

Bibliographic format

26 x 21 cm as housed

General notes

Title devised by cataloger Printed in brown and green Text in Japanese, with play title also in English

Item information about Folger BILL Box Z5 T7oh 1954 item 3

Two small punctures at top. Extensive Japanese text in black ink on verso. Translation by Ichiro Nishizaki in blue ink: On the other side, it says: - (in black ink) After the play is finished tonight, the Japan Television Broadcast Co. is going to broadcast our play. If you like, please stay and look at it, remaining in your seat as you like it, or if you want to go home, will you please leave the hall quietly

Waseda Daigaku. Ōkuma Kinen Kōdō Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Comedy of errors Theaters

issuing body: Waseda Daigaku. Ōkuma Kinen Kōdō
subject: Waseda Daigaku. Ōkuma Kinen Kōdō
former owner: Nishizaki, Ichirō