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Primary Colors: A Play by Mishima Yukio: Introduction
- Asian Theatre Journal
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 23, Number 2, Fall 2006
- pp. 223-232
- 10.1353/atj.2006.0028
- Article
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Primary Colors (Sangenshoku) is a 1955 play by MishimaYukio that brings up issues of homosexuality and bisexuality. Its positive treatment of homosexual themes contrasts with the darkness of Forbidden Colors, the author's novel of the same period. While the play has received only a few professional productions, its poetry and theme help us understand Mishima's developing aesthetic.