Transcript Day 32 - Pegasus @ UCF

Friendly Reminders
1) No Class Meeting on Wednesday
(2 April 2014)
2) Test # 2 to be announced later this
week (Friday)
Japanese Theater
• Kabuki – Traditional Theater (popular)
Exs. Kabuki – YouTube (a good introduction)
Centre Stage: Kabuki – YouTube (overview)
• Bunraku – Puppet Theater
Ex. YouTube - Bunraku theater in Osaka
• Noh – Traditional Theater (elitist)
Ex. Noh Theatre - YouTube
National Bunraku Theater
(Osaka)
Bunraku
• Oldest theater tradition (roots in Heian period)
• Originates in late 17th century (joins 2 traditions)
- traveling story-tellers w/ Biwa accompaniment
- traveling puppeteers
• 1st Bunraku theater – 1684 in Osaka
• Plays about “ordinary” people
- stories of merchant class (Osaka - merchant city)
- stories of Shinju (“love suicides”, often factual)
• Audience – traditionally middle-class
• Life-like puppets and “realistic” stories
Bunraku Music (“Chobo”)
• Visible at side of
stage
• Narrator (“Tayu”)
- “speaker” in
pitched tones
• Shamisen
Bunraku
(Japanese Puppet
Theater)
Bunraku Puppets
Bunraku Stage
(w/ puppets & puppeters)
Bunraku
(w/ multiple puppets and puppeteers)
Bunraku Puppet
(w/ puppeteers in traditional black)
Bunraku
(w/ master puppeteers [Omozukai] visible)
Bunraku
Puppeteers
Bunraku on YouTube
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YouTube - Bunraku - Classical Japanese puppet art - Screener
YouTube - Bunraku Demonstration Male Head
YouTube - Bunraku Demo @ Gion Corner
YouTube - Japanese Bunraku puppets
YouTube - Bunraku theater in Osaka
YouTube - Bunraku at the Gion Corner
Noh
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Most elite and stylized Japanese theater
Associated primarily w/ Warrior class (samuri)
Developed c. 1192-1333 (Kamakura period)
Formalized c. 1300s (Kannami Kiyotsugu)
- intended to make popular forms more serious
• Strong Buddhist element
- denial of self ends suffering (transcendence)
- ritual focuses attention
Noh (2)
• Minimalist aesthetic (less is more)
• Very stylized acting technique
- not naturalistic
- small motions signify major events
• Use of masks (course web site for examples)
• Music – Hayashi (fixed Noh ensemble)
- 3 drums
- flute
Kotsuzumi
Otsuzumi
Noh Drum (Taiko)
Nohkan
Noh Theater on YouTube
• Noh - YouTube
• YouTube - Noh Theatre
• YouTube - Noh Play - Osaka, Japan - July
2006
• YouTube - Noh Play "Tamura“
• Atsumori-the dance.mp4 - YouTube