Koharu Kisaragi

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Koharu Kisaragi ( Japanese 如月 小春 , Kisaragi Koharu ; born February 19, 1956 , † December 19, 2000 ) was a Japanese playwright and theater director.

Kisaragi studied philosophy at the Tōkyō Joshi Daigaku until 1976 . In the same year she founded her first theater group Gekidan Kiki , with which she performed her own plays such as Romio to Furiijia no aru Shokutaku (1981). In 1982 she left Gekidan Kiki and founded the group NOISE . She was their director and worked as a writer and director in all performances. The producer was her husband Kajiya Kazuyuki .

In addition to the pieces for the ensemble (whose most prominent moral - 1984 - was) Kisaragi wrote the essay Ansanburu no Shisō on ensemble play. At the end of 2000 she suddenly died of a cerebral haemorrhage.

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