36 Views | Navigating Alien Worlds: An Interview with the Playwright
In the following interview, Iizuka comments on her inspiration for 36 Views, including Kabuki theatre, and discusses the origin of the idea for the pillow book in the play.
[American Theatre]: What inspired 36 Views?
[Iizuka]: I became transfixed by the series of woodblock prints ‘‘36 Views of Mount Fuji’’ by [the 19th-century artist] Hokusai. It’s an intriguing work. Each print is a representation of the mountain from a different perspective, in different seasons. You see the mountain and the world around it, but in some of the prints the mountain is actually very difficult to make out. As I was writing the play, the question of authenticity—What is authentic? What is true or real?—became as mysterious and somehow...
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