Word: noh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Throne of Blood. A barbarically splendid Japanization of Shakespeare's Macbeth; both brutalized and energized by Director Akira (Rashomon) Kurosawa, the Elizabethan tragedy becomes a noh play of demonic majesty...
...juggled scenes, chucked the sentimental excrescences-among them, thank heaven, the soap-operatic murder of poor little Baby Macduff. Kurosawa's intention is plainly to hack off the Gothic foliage of Shakespeare's fancy and compress his tale into that traditional form of Japanese theater known as noh. As in those vast dance-dramas of destiny, Kurosawa's actors run to the grand mythological gesture, speak in noble recitative, and are accompanied by a queer, irrelevant commentary of abstruse instruments that bip and pok and squitter on the sound track like a chorus of corpses chanting punctuation...
THREE MODERN NOH PLAYS at the Loeb: American premiere presented by the Poets' Theatre. Through...
...write novels only the initiated can decipher. But a play without a participating audience is simply not a play. The stage, even in its proscenium days, was never comprehended within the three inward dimensions but always had the fourth of the attending consciousness--a fourth dimension which the Noh play symbolized by the brooding figure waiting at the bridge. The young man of talent who thinks he can teach himself to be a playwright or a director or an actor by writing or directing or acting for himself as audience has misconceived his tasks--and perhaps his talents...