Word: accompanimental
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Enjoyable as Kabuki is, it has elements that Westerners may find difficult. The musical accompaniment-voices, flutes, drums and three-stringed plucked instruments called shamisens- is of real but recondite beauty. Performances are long, running close to four hours. And there is the language barrier as well.
The lesser roles are in general better handled than in Coe's Othello last summer. Eight of the players assume two roles apiece (the practice of doubling was of course standard in Shakespeare's day) Edward Atienza is particularly laudable as a cleanly spoken Worcester, though he overacts the Welsh...
"Calm is the night, O Lord, as we wait for you," begin the seated brothers of Vermont's Weston Priory, singing one of the simple contemporary hymns written by their own Brother Gregory. "All the stars are laughing at our wonder." They continue antiphonally, "Christ yesterday and today/ The...
One of the major lessons of the play--"simplicity, simplicity, simplicity," in one character's words--is admirably carried out in the play's staging. The stage and props are unembellished, and the action unceremoniously set off from the audience by some well-placed mattresses. The lighting is unobtrusive, and...
The pit orchestra broke into a feisty rendition of "Yankee Doodle Dandy," and the audience, dressed in formal attire, set down their champagne glasses to clap in accompaniment. The colorful constant was raised, and James Cagney, learning lightly on a came, smiled and thanked the crowed for his routing welcome...