University of Laughs

Warai no Daigaku University of Laughs is a story by Japanese dramatist Kki Mitani which began as a play in 1996 starring actors Masahiko Nishimura as the Censor and Yoshimasa Kondo as the Playwright. The play won the Best Play Award at the 1996 Yomiuri Theater Awards.

Set in 1940, a young playwright, Tsubaki Hajime Inagaki Kondo comes up against a government censor, Sakisaka Mutsuo Yakusho Nishimura. The censors job is to prevent anything political or taboo from getting into the prewar media, but this censor has a thing against comedy, too.Tsubaki comes to have his script checked by the censors before rehearsals begin. But the censor, who is looking for an excuse to shut down the comedy troupe at which Tsubaki works, tells him that his whole play is rubbish and Tsubaki would have to rewrite it completely before Sakisaka would let it be performed. ........

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