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I don’t know where I am now
Contributed by Rinde Eckert [Editor’s note: Rinde Eckert is a 2007 Pulitzer Prize finalist for Drama and the Obie Award-winning creator of “And God Created Great Whales.” A writer and composer, he shares the below reflections about his experience with … Continue reading
Tama-no-Dan
Contributed by David Crandall INTRODUCTION: “Tama-no-Dan is a famous segment from the noh play Ama, which recounts how a diver (a woman of humble origins) has an affair with a high court official (Fujiwara no Fuhito) and bears him a … Continue reading
2012 Costume Workshop video highlights.
Here is some highlight video of the 2012 TN Costume Workshop held in Kyoto & Fukuyama Japan. It features clips from the lecture component, various field trips to master artisans as well as the culminating trip to the Oshima Nohgakudo … Continue reading
Posted in Costume Workshop, Workshops
Tagged 2012 Costume Workshop, 2013 Costume Workshop, evelyn leung, gold leaf, jacquard loom, john oglevee, kristin jackson, monica bethe, noh, noh costume, noh theatre, Oshima Kinue, oshima noh theatre, richard emmert, sasaki noh ishou, shinichi iova-koga, theatre nohgaku, yugen, Ōkuchi
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Egret at San Diego Bay (Pt. II)
(Editor’s note: below is Part II of Carrie Preston’s English-language noh “Egret at San Diego Bay.” The kuri/sashi/kuse is included in this entry. “In the fullness of his love, he helped her to leave.”) (Entrance … Continue reading
Egret at San Diego Bay (Pt. I)
(Editor’s note: below is Part I of Carrie Preston’s English-language noh “Egret at San Diego Bay.” The play is modeled after traditional third category noh, and recounts part of Carrie’s personal history – life on a boat; and the story … Continue reading
Crazy Jane (Pt. IV)
(Editor’s note: the below is the final entry of David Crandall’s English-language noh “Crazy Jane.” Jane causes the Young Man to dance, and a question is raised about who is real and who is not, who is mad and who … Continue reading
Crazy Jane (Pt. III)
(Editor’s note: in Part III of David Crandall’s English-language noh “Crazy Jane,” the character Jane recounts dancing with the lost Tom.) CHORUS It must be many years ago by now, but I have lost the thread of time, and memories … Continue reading
Crazy Jane (Pt. II)
(Editor’s note: in Part II of David Crandall’s “Crazy Jane” the shite (Jane) makes her entrance and confronts the Young Man who has been given shelter at the church.) JANE The church bell tolls with sweet clarity Set like the … Continue reading
Crazy Jane (Pt. I)
(Editor’s note: below is Part I of “Crazy Jane” written by author and composer David Crandall. Informed by William Butler Yeats’ poems surrounding the character of Crazy Jane, Crandall’s English-language noh tells the story of a young man, disturbed by … Continue reading
Jo-ha-kyū (序破急)
Contributed by David Surtasky “We sweep the needles that fall without end.” Takasago Time: Things begin slowly. Then they speed up. Then they end rapidly. What has become fascinating to me is the fractal nature of this structure within … Continue reading
Posted in Atsumori, Performances
Tagged atsumori, hosho-ryu, jo-ha-kyu, mae-shite, nochi-shite, noh, noh plays, takigi noh, the life structure of noh, theatre nohgaku, yugen, zeami, 序破急
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