Word: kabuki
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...into Night for the edification of Japanese actors and di rectors. Later, Tokyo's prestigious Kumo (Cloud) theater company mount ed a Japanese version of the play, which was so successful that it actually broke even - a rare feat for any Japanese pro duction that is not traditional kabuki...
Over the Shoulders. At times, Mishima's single-pattern plot seems to glide in slow, repetitive cycles, freezing faces in glaring expressions like kabuki actors: frenzied passion, cross-eyed frustration. Still, what keeps the novel from being another existentialist dead end is the presence of the author. It is finally not the hang-ups of his characters but the questions Mishima asks about them that fascinate-including the ultimate, curiously Japanese question that his novel tests for itself: Can obsession with death, pushed to an extreme, result in some absolute awareness of life...
...often a lonely one filled with tribulations." Himself besieged by leftist anti-government rioters before he flew to the U.S., Sato commented dryly on dissent in America. "It has been suggested that perhaps we should institute an exchange program for demonstrators," he remarked with a crooked smile on his Kabuki-actor's face. "From what I have seen, I would not like...
...dramatic program-ranging from Kabuki plays to slapstick to poetry reading-is broad enough to challenge the resources of any normal theatrical troupe. Yet none of the principal actors of the National Theater of the Deaf utters a word, and only one of them can hear. No matter; the pacing and performance are unmistakably professional, and the critical notices are in the rave category. Currently on a six-week tour of 18 Northeastern cities, the company opened at Manhattan's Hunter College Playhouse last week to tumultuous applause...
Visual Haiku. Signing can be awkward and slow-paced in plays that depend heavily on dialogue, such as Saroyan's The Man with the Heart in the Highlands, which leads off the current show. But the medium is perfectly suited to such stylized theatrical forms as the Kabuki play The Tale of Kasane, which the group performs with the flow and precision of fine ballet. The company's most striking performances are its "recitations" of poetry. Through such simple gestures as twisting her fingers over her heart to show grief, stunning Audree Norton manages to evoke...