3rd hour Theatre History by Molly Grasso https://padlet.com/mojograsso/jji7pe8mj491 Made with magic en-us 2018-11-09 14:06:53 UTC 2025-04-11 14:48:53 UTC hello@padlet.com Kaitlynn, Daniel, Jordan https://padlet.com/mojograsso/jji7pe8mj491/wish/302635461 2018-11-09 16:13:03 UTC https://padlet.com/mojograsso/jji7pe8mj491/wish/302635461 KABUKI THEATER https://padlet.com/mojograsso/jji7pe8mj491/wish/302637959
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  
 
 
 
]]> 2018-11-09 16:17:17 UTC https://padlet.com/mojograsso/jji7pe8mj491/wish/302637959 https://padlet.com/mojograsso/jji7pe8mj491/wish/302640889 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
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