Bunraku
National Puppet Theater
of Japan
(Japan
Society of Boston)
October 2-3, 2007
Tuesday and Wednesday at
7:30pm
$20, $35, $55, $65
Plus Fees
Bunraku, Japan’s
internationally renowned puppet theater from Osaka, will return to Boston
for the first time in more than thirty years in a presentation by the Japan
Society of Boston.
One of Japan’s most celebrated
traditional art forms, Bunraku traces its origins to the 16th-century,
and developed alongside Kabuki in the vigorous urban culture of early-modern
Japan. Each puppet is ¾-life size and is manipulated by three
puppeteers, moving together in such seamless coordination that the puppets
seem human in all their actions and emotions. A Bunraku performance
is a feast for the eye and the imagination!
Top artists from the National
Bunraku Theater in Osaka, Japan, will appear in only two performances
at the Cutler Majestic Theatre, October 2 and 3, as part of a national
U.S. tour supported by the government of Japan. Each performance
will feature two traditional Bunraku plays and a brief demonstration of
the finely coordinated techniques of puppeteers, musicians, and dramatic
narrators seated at the side of the stage. Don’t miss this rare opportunity
to see this brilliant Japanese theatrical art at the Majestic!
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Yoayo Oshichi,
courtesy
Bunraku
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