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Japan's Kabuki or People's Theater is nowhere near as stuffy as the ancient and stylized No drama, but in 300 years, even the Kabuki has become a bit hidebound. Back in 1931, Japan's top Kabuki player, jut-jawed Actor Chojuro Kawarasaki, decided to liberate...
Like many a Broadway and Hollywood contemporary, Actor Kawarasaki had a tickling Marxian social conscience. He organized a new Kabuki troupe called the Zenshinza (Forward-Looking Theater), set up shop in a sleek, modern playhouse outside Tokyo, defied tradition by hiring women actors to play female parts and began mixing Western dramas with the Japanese classics. When V-J brought democracy officially to Japan, Democrat Kawarasaki was ready with a full-fledged production of John Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln (TIME...
...Actor Alfred Lunt, 55, had to call off eight Milwaukee performances of the touring I Know My Love to nurse an acute peptic ulcer...
Aaron is a New England boy, raised in the Berkshires, "not tall nor short, with a brush of chestnut hair, and brown eyes that were serene and markedly friendly, his forehead noble and clear as a scholar's -or an actor's-only a fair dancer but a competent drinker." His dying grandfather, who had Episcopal leanings, was "a merry and evil old man who remembered the days . . . when, small though he was, he could swing a quarryman's sledge and make a woman moan with love." He had urged Aaron to become a rebel...
Buttons to Fix. By the time Garrick reached fame, the English stage was in a condition of happy disorder. Shakespeare's plays had been murderously rewritten; King Lear had a happy ending and Macbeth had been refitted with low-comedy witches. While one actor rumbled through his speeches, another might nod to his friends in the audience, fix his buttons or ostentatiously spit on the stage. Audiences were noisy and quarrelsome, and privileged dandies would stand in the wings loudly gossiping. Occasionally, a drunken beau would stray on to the stage to kiss the leading lady...