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    Kabuki is a traditional form of Japanese theater that features singing, dancing, and highly stylized acting. It originated in the early 17th century and has been a major art form in Japan for over 400 years. Kabuki performances typically last around 4 hours and feature historical plays, domestic stories, and dance pieces. Strong influences on Kabuki include Noh theater and puppet theater. Actors and audience traditionally engaged in an interactive performance style, though the theater now aims to preserve Kabuki as a classical art form.

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    Kabuki is a traditional form of Japanese theater that features singing, dancing, and highly stylized acting. It originated in the early 17th century and has been a major art form in Japan for over 400 years. Kabuki performances typically last around 4 hours and feature historical plays, domestic stories, and dance pieces. Strong influences on Kabuki include Noh theater and puppet theater. Actors and audience traditionally engaged in an interactive performance style, though the theater now aims to preserve Kabuki as a classical art form.

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    Kabuki is a traditional form of Japanese theater that features singing, dancing, and highly stylized acting. It originated in the early 17th century and has been a major art form in Japan for over 400 years. Kabuki performances typically last around 4 hours and feature historical plays, domestic stories, and dance pieces. Strong influences on Kabuki include Noh theater and puppet theater. Actors and audience traditionally engaged in an interactive performance style, though the theater now aims to preserve Kabuki as a classical art form.

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    Kabuki is a traditional form of Japanese theater that features singing, dancing, and highly stylized acting. It originated in the early 17th century and has been a major art form in Japan for over 400 years. Kabuki performances typically last around 4 hours and feature historical plays, domestic stories, and dance pieces. Strong influences on Kabuki include Noh theater and puppet theater. Actors and audience traditionally engaged in an interactive performance style, though the theater now aims to preserve Kabuki as a classical art form.

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    JAPANESE DRAMATURGY

    KABUKI
    DRAMATURGY
    • It is a traditional Japanese drama
    with singing and dancing
    performed in highly stylized
    manner.
    • It has been a major theatrical
    form in Japan for four centuries.
    • The term "kabuki" originally
    suggested the unorthodox and
    shocking characters in this form.
    • The word is written in three
    characters: ka signifying "song", bu
    "dance" and ki "skill".
    HISTORY OF FORM

    • The Kabuki form dates from the early


    17th century, when a female dancer
    named Okuni, achieved popularity with
    parodies of Buddhist prayers.
    • She was the first dramatic entertainment
    of any importance that was deigned for
    the tastes of common people in Japan.
    • By the early 18th Century, Kabuki had become
    an established art form that was capable of
    the serious, dramatic presentation of
    genuinely moving situations.
    • Kabuki, as the people theatre provided a vivid
    commentary or contemporary society.
    Actual historical events were transferred to
    the stage:
    1. Chushingura, was an essentially faithful
    dramatization of the famous incident of
    1701 – 1703 in which a band of 47 ronin.
    2. Bugaku, the dance ceremony of the
    imperial court.
    3. Noh theatre, both great antiquity, were
    long the exclusive domain of the nobility
    and the warrior class known as samurai.
    • The strongest tie of Kabuki are the Noh and
    the joruri, the puppet theatre that developed
    during the 17th century.
    • Kabuki derived much materials from the Noh.
    • It re-established itself by adapting and
    parodying kyogen, sketches that provide
    comic interludes during Noh performances.
    • During this period, a special groups of actors,
    called onnagata, emerged to play the female
    roles.
    The Audience
    • Traditionally, a constant interplay
    between the actors and the spectators
    took place in the Kabuki.
    • The actors frequently interrupted the play
    to address the crowd, and the latter
    responded with appropriate praise or
    clapped their hands according to the
    formula.
    • Kabuki subject matter creates distinctions between the historical play
    (jidaimono) and the domestic play (sewamono).
    • A Kabuki program generally presents them in that order, separated by
    one or two dance plays featuring ghost, courtesans, and other exotic
    creatures.
    • It ends with a lively dance finale (ogiri shosagoto) wit a large cast.
    • Although, the basic purposes of Kabuki are to
    entertain and to allow the actors to demonstrate
    their skill, there is a didactic element, an ideal
    represented by the notion of kanzen-choaku
    ( reward the virtuous and punished the wicked).
    • Thus, the plays often represent conflicts involving
    such religious ideas as the as the transitory nature
    from the World and the importance of duty, as
    well as more general moral sentiments.
    At present, regular performances are held at the National Theatre
    in Tokyo. The city was also home to the Kabuki Theatre (kabuki-za),
    which closed in 2010. An office tower – which includes the theatre
    was opened on the site in 2013. Troupes of Kabuki actors also
    perform outside Tokyo. At the National Theatre the length of an
    average program is about four hours. The theatre stresses the
    importance of the play itself, trying to maintain the historical
    tradition and to preserve Kabuki as a classical form.
     Nakamura Nakazo I, also called Sakaeya or Hidetsuru,
    Japanese Kabuki actor who introduced male roles into the
    Kabuki theatre’s dance pieces (shosagoto), which had been
    traditionally reserved for female impersonators.
     Namiki Gohei I, playwright of Kabuki kyogen (farces), who
    left more than 100 plays written during a 40 year career.
     Onoe Shoruku II, original name, Japanese kabuki actor,
    one of the foremost interpreters of the classical plays, who
    specialized in female roles.
    Thank You!

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