taking sides: Kabuki v. Noh

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Also, what's the difference?

I read that one of them is best enjoyed when you are at that trance-like stage before you fall asleep. I like the sound of that.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 29 December 2003 13:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Sounds a barrel.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 29 December 2003 13:05 (twenty-two years ago)

there's a great scene in "early summer" where they show the family watching a kabuki performance but they don't know the performance--you just see the old uncles total rapturous delight as he listens to it (and the sounds coming from the performance are really something else--guttural and seemingly very melodramatic), and later they discuss the performance around the dinner table. in other ozu films you do get to see the performances.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 29 December 2003 13:12 (twenty-two years ago)

i meant to write "show the family watching the performance but YOU DON'T SEE the performance"

sorry

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 29 December 2003 13:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Kabuki - Fiorucci Pop
Noh - spartan theatre.
I definitely prefer Noh. Kabuki feels like a circus - it's for the PEOPLE. Noh is for snotty intellectuals. hah!

― nathalie (nathalie), Monday, 29 December 2003 14:01 (twenty-two years ago)

"
I read that one of them is best enjoyed when you are at that trance-like stage before you fall asleep."
This was the advice my Japanese friend gave me when we went to a Noh play. It lasted 4 hours! I slept for an hour.

― nathalie (nathalie), Monday, 29 December 2003 14:02 (twenty-two years ago)

"Noh" is good if you can get the "H" on a double letter square combined with another word. "Kabuki" is more or less useless because it has two "K"s in it, unless you have a blank tile, in which case it would be shweet because it's seven letters.

― jewelly (jewelly), Monday, 29 December 2003 21:40 (twenty-two years ago)

No it isn't.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 29 December 2003 21:42 (twenty-two years ago)

thank you martin, i know i'm not the only 7-letter freak here.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 29 December 2003 21:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh. Right. Uh ... I was bluffing?

― jewelly (jewelly), Monday, 29 December 2003 21:53 (twenty-two years ago)

but to answer the question, i like the traditional shamisen and koto style music most. i fell asleep for about 1/3rd of a 75 minute kabuki matinee (i believe it was a 4 hour performance in total), i haven't done noh yet.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 29 December 2003 21:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Shit, man, a perfectly good Scrabble joke destroyed by miscounting. My day is ruined.

― jewelly (jewelly), Monday, 29 December 2003 21:57 (twenty-two years ago)

D@vid M@ck to thread!

― Leee Marvin (Leee), Monday, 29 December 2003 21:58 (twenty-two years ago)

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