Vestibule: Theater

The theater (of the Greek Theatrón, “place to contemplate”) is the branch of the scenic art related to the action, that represents histories in front of a hearing using a combination of speech, gestures, stage scene, music, sound and spectacle. It is also the literary sort that includes works conceived in a scene, before a public.

In addition to the common narrative, the dialog style, the theater also takes other forms like the opera, the ballet, mimo, the Chinese opera and pantomima.

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Nō is one of the most outstanding manifestations of the Japanese musical drama.

One is a Japanese lírico drama that had its apogee in century XVII, time at which they date first texts printed, given to Kwanami and to its Zeami son (both of beginnings of century XIV). The Nō comes from the ritual dances of the temples, of the popular dances, Buddhist writs and the Japanese and Chinese poetry, mythology and popular legend. In opposition to the Kabuki theater, it is an aristocratic drama that continues having its public at present and it imagines in a quadrilateral high and surrounded by two sides of public. In one of his sides there is a balcony with a choir of ten singers and at heart estrado for four musicians. There is no basic curtain and the scenery is reduced to four posts with a tile roof to represent a palace, a temple or any other place. There are two main players accompanied in some scenes, dresses with great wealth. The first plaintiff wears mask during the dance that constitutes the core of the work. Between the five pieces that constitute a dramatic program Nō they put in humorous interludios of entremesil or farsesco character (Kyogen), represented with current suits, without masks and with an alive and updated language. Thematic of the dramas nō is solemn and tragic, and it always alludes to some type of .redemption using the apparent symbolism of some legend or historical fact; the language is very made, aristocratic and is elevated and abounds in archaisms. A Nō program contains five pieces and four Kyogen farces and lasts of four to five hours.

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