Tag: Shakespeare

I went to see Kabuki on the other day. The story was based on Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night”. My impression was, unique Kabuki (in a good meaning). There were more British audience than I thought, and the atmosphere was completely like “away”! At first, three children were on the stage and sang western style song with cembalo, and Orsino wearing Japanese style costume said “Shakespeare lines”… it was extremely weird! Some British people were giggling, and I thought the whole play might be crap… But don’t underestimate Kabuki actors! They started to capture audience’s feeling little by little. Well…Kikunosuke acted Viola […]