Word: noh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Frank O'Hara, was labeled on the program a "noh play," and we were handed some notes on the Noh plays of Japan: "The audience once dressed for them as if for a religious service in elaborate ceremonial robes . . . The audience is supposed to know all the plays by heart." Having put the modestly dressed audience on the defensive, the play earned the most appreciative reception of the evening. Violet Lang drew laughs with a number of dryly satirical lines...