Word: komachi
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...your viewing comprehension, Komachi is a 99-year-old hag who, as a heartless beauty some 80 years before, had refused to yield to a suitor unless he paid her a visit every night for 100 nights; on the 100th night, he died from frustration and expectation...
...Mishima's play, a drunken poet (Tracy Cronin) encounters Komachi (Jennifer Graham) in a public park and, after a long, strange conversation that transports them back 80 years, finds himself repeating the suitor's role and painful death...
...ACTION of the play opens with Komachi collecting cigarette butts from the ground. Graham is hunched over a bit but neither her movements nor her voice suggest a tortured, remorseful old woman. Her speech is too clear and sharp for the naturalistic mood of the script...
...best things in Komachi do not happen on stage--images flashed across a large screen at the back of the stage and voices and music on the soundtrack are more powerful than the acting. Using these three elements, Banks' prelude starts off his production in excellent form...
...tradition is admirable; his work is often thought-provoking. But the staging at the Agassiz simply does not have the spiritual aura or nuanced acting to carry an audience through an hour of abstracted performance. Noh business is not show business, and doesn't try to be, but Komachi is too slow and awkward to be very rewarding...