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Old Aug 19, 2014 | 2:08 pm
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ksandness
 
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota,USA
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If you want to see Kabuki, save it for the Tokyo Ginza theater, where you can rent earphones with English commentary.

Even if you don't see a play, the basement has a kind of shopping area with booths selling traditional souvenirs and patent medicines.

I've seen bunraku (puppet theater) twice, and it can be fun to watch what the puppets are able to do and how the taiyu (narrator) changes his voice to represent the characters. It's headquartered in Osaka and travels to Tokyo a few times a year.

On the other hand, Noh is pretty boring, even to those of us who have read some of the plays, as I had to for my graduate work. Slow-moving doesn't begin to describe them.
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