阿南順子（著）／日本の宝塚歌劇における女性的な親密性のパフォーマンス Performing Female Intimacy in Japan's Takarazuka Revue

著者名：Anan, Nobuko

Cambridge University Press（2025/08/28発売）

• 言語：ENG
• ISBN：9781009554978
• eISBN：9781009555005

Description

Japan's Takarazuka Revue is arguably the most commercially successful all-female theatre company in the world. Renowned for its glamour-laden staging of musicals and revues, the company's signature shows are heterosexual Western romances where women play both male and female roles. Since its audience consists almost entirely of women, Takarazuka creates a space for queer intimacy between performers and ardent female fans. This Element analyses the recent experimental show, The Poe Clan, directed by Koike Shūichirō, which portrays a male homoerotic relationship, argued as a façade for a queer, kin-like relationship between women. It also explores works by the female director Ueda Kumiko, which depict an anti-capitalist shared commons for female intimacy. These shows exhibit resistant girls' aesthetics, expressed in the company's two-dimensional performance style.

Table of Contents

1. Gender and sexual conundrum of the Takarazuka revue; 2. Female queer kinship and the Poe Clan; 3. Ueda Kumiko's experiments: De-capitalising Takarazuka Postscript; References.