Word: kabuki
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Grand Kabuki brings tales of triumph and tragedy
...drunkenness and adultery. Immediately accessible on the level of mime, it is nevertheless highly sophisticated, yielding its ultimate secrets- and thus pleasures- to those who have taken the time to study it. Its name once connoted "outlandish" or "eccentric," yet it literally means song-dance-skill. It is Kabuki...
...Kabuki is probably best viewed in its context, as part of the Japanese social tradition from which it derives. But this month Americans are seeing several of the most famous Kabuki plays without venturing overseas, as Tokyo's Grand Kabuki tours New York City, Knoxville (at the World's Fair) and Washington, B.C. The 77-member company...
...Elvis. We thought it was and that's why we thought it was stupid. All those hundreds of thousands of leisure suited fans he drew must have been stupid, too, if that's what they wanted to see. But they didn't see that Elvis either. Impossibly, like kabuki stagehands, no one saw the paunch and the glitter. Maybe it was mass hypnosis. Maybe it was wishful thinking. But what they saw was miles from what was going on onstage. What they saw was some twenty, twenty-five years ago. What they saw wasn't ridiculous...
...Actor's Revenge tells the tale of an 18th century Kabuki actor, Yukinojo, who specializes in female roles. Yukinojo is played by two people: a tenor (Mallory Walker) who sings the role, and a dancer (Manuel Alum) who mimes the part. Walker's relentless shouting tired the ear quickly, but Alum's performance as a man impersonating a woman was riveting...