The Reflection of the Theme of Mother-Daughter Conflict on Stage Design

Abstract

This article entitled "The reflection of the theme of mother-daughter conflict on stage design' discusses how the stage designs are organized In such a way as to trace the phases of a mother-daughter relation, in Öte play The Music Lesson (1977) by the Japanese-American woman playwright WakakoYamauchi,the thirty-eight year old protagonist Chlzuko Sakata who Is a widow Japanese-American mother tries to hold together her family which comprises of two elder boys and a girl of seventeen. The dramatic crisis occurs when an Itinerant Japanese man named Kaoru Kawaguchi comes to their farm In the Emperor Valley In 1935. The mother and the daughter get pulled towards this thirty three year old violin player and their relationship goes through the processes of: birth, symbiosis, searching oneself back through mother, power strugle and separation. The daughter can attain her self-esteem and construct her ego boundary only by seperarating herself form her mother. Thus, the two women of the Sakata family get this rivalry with hopes for a new start In future.