Sakura Hime
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Stunning plot twists follow. Seigen is captivated by the image of Shiragikumaru in the princess, while Sakurahime struggles to rebuild her life after being thrown out by her family once her continuing involvement with Gonsuke is revealed.
The program opened with excerpts from ``Sakura-hime Azuma Bunsho,'' or ``The Scarlet Princess of Edo,'' dating from Kabuki's ``decadent'' period in the early 19th century. The lurid action is replete with murder, rape, odd obsessions, and other soap-operatic stuff; the dialogue (as heard in simultaneous translation via headset) is surprisingly racy at times. The point of the show isn't melodrama for its own sake, however, but the conversion of even the nastiest material into art bolstered by ingenious p erformances and visually stunning sets. One wishes the Grand Kabuki had staged the entire work rather than a reduction of it, although even the cut-down version lasted a couple of hours.
``Tsuchigumo'' is more spare but almost as strong dramatically, spotlighting the actors on a bare stage backed by a large group of musicians. Dance and melody interrupt the fantastical story, which is enacted with the broadest of Kabuki postures and poses. There are no ensemble performances here as ideally matched as those of Tamasaburo (a specialist in female roles) and Takao in the ``Sakura-hime'' epic, but the acting carries plenty of stylized Kabuki power. 59ce067264