【Date】 Friday, 23 June Spring Chiyoda Satellite Class
NOH
Fee ¥5,900(prior lecture,ticket,refreshment included) Required ─── Documents Day of the Week Friday Date
Pre-Performance: 17:00〜18:40 Timetable Explanation: 19:00〜19:30 Overview Performance: 19:30〜21:00 Number of the June23, 2017 Programs 1 Capacity
Location National Noh Theatre (Sendagaya, Tokyo) Richard Emmert Department of Japanese Literature and Culture, Musashino University Researcher, Noh Research Archives Richard Emmert is a professor of Asian performance at Musashino University in Tokyo. He has studied, taught and performed classical noh drama in Japan since 1973 and is Instructor a Kita school noh instructor. He directs an on-going Noh Training Project in Tokyo, as well as a summer intensive at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has authored two series of books on noh for the National Noh Theatre. Emmert has led numerous noh performance projects throughout the world. The founder and artistic director of Theatre Nohgaku, a company dedicated to performing noh in English, he has led performance tours of the company in the United States, Europe and Asia.
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Contact us Musashino University Center for Community Relation E-mail: [email protected] or Fax:042-468-3211 www.musashino-u.ac.jp Noh Appreciation Pre-Performance Lecture and Performance for Foreigners This is a performance with a pre-performance lecture in English of Japan’s classical theatre nohgaku which encompasses both noh and kyogen. Nohgaku was designated a Masterpiece of World Culture by Unesco in 2001. Musashino University professor Richard Emmert will give explanation providing background for the understanding of the two plays. The noh Kurozuka is the story of traveling priests who find lodging in the humble hut of a lone woman in the wilds of Adachi. When she leaves to fetch firewood, a servant looks in the woman’s room and finds piled up bones and rotting corpses and realize Program that she is the demoness of Adachi. When she returns in a rage, the priests use their powers of Buddhist prayer to quell her anger. The kyogen Busu is a story of the two servants Tarokaja and Jirokaja who are told to watch over a dangerous poison while their master is away. They realize instead that the poison is black sugar and they eat it all up. Later they are forced to think of creative excuses when their master returns home. Professor Emmert will also be speaking onstage to the entire audience before the performance. The performance will feature subtitles which will be available in English, Chinese, Korean and Japanese.
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