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JOLIE, BAILEE, ZAVIER

OPENING KABUKI

3 main traditional types of theater in Japan

Non (serious &abstract) with stylized masks

Bunraku ( puppet theater) 3 individuals to operate

Kabuki (some ways resembles American musical)

All share elements of costume, music, dance, and set design

Kabuki made around 1600 by okuni

Mid 1600 male actors took all voles beginning tradition of female impersonation

THEATER SPACE

Kabuki stage is a raised platform at one end of an auditorium

Wooden sections laid on the stage to amplify the foot stomping of the dancing

Features hanamichi or “flower path” used for spectacular entrances and exists

Curtains are used, but not in the conventional western sense to signal beginning and endings of scenes

Entrances and exits are made through curtained doorway if not using hanamichi

One type of curtain is patterned with vertical stripes of orange, green, and black

Another curtain is just pale blue

Curtains are not raised and lowered but instead moved aside

Chorus sits on a angled platform at rear of stage

COSTUME AND MAKEUP

The basic costume is the kimono

A floor-length robe with long, flowing sleeves

Kimonos are worn by both male and female characters

A male character might instead wear a vest or a hip-length robe with trousers cut very full and so long that they fold under the feet and trail 4-6 feet behind them

Folding fans are used for a variety of conventional sometimes symbolic gestures

Makeup is not realistic; the face is painted white with bold lines principally red or blue

Red lines represent virtue or strength; blue lines represent evil

ACTING STYLES

Highly stylized form of storytelling

Audience is always aware that they are watching a play

All visable elements contribute to awareness (costume, makeup, setting)

Actors address audience directly in presentational style both roles by men

Actors become specialized in character (comic/ horror)

Speeches always timed with musical accompaniment

Fights/violence shown in symbolic movement possibly in slo-mo

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Wilson

or the modern theater

In the time of Wilsons childhood, there was a lot of racism. There where wars and black people had a hard time finding work including his mother.

Some of Wilsons role models at the time was welsh poet, Dylan Thomas. Garland Anderson, and Langston Hughes. He looked up to these people and used them and the black revolution to write his plays

Since racism was very much a thing, they made African Americans look like fools onstage. some of the most popular forms of plays were rapping, sweet talking, and loud talking. Wilson did manage to use music to help tell his stories.

Wilsons biggest hit was ma Rainey’s black bottom. He used music and storytelling to convey the meanings in the story. It gave blacks a bigger market for jobs