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We went to see Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura here in London in 2010 at the Sadler's Wells theatre with Ebizo Ichikawa XI and loved it. As I understood it, this performance was just a selection of some of the acts and scenes, still very understandable and action packed, but only filling an evening.
My questions are:
- If I were to visit Kabuki in Japan, is it always the full performance?
- Which theatres would offer simultaneous translation headsets in English for tourists? Without that headset with dialogue translations and background information I would have been lost. At the time we were told that the headsets provided were the ones used in Japan, however I can imagine that such a system would be costly and that not all theatres have them.
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by Hoshisato
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Re: Kabuki
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2012/4/4 13:56
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- If I were to visit Kabuki in Japan, is it always the full performance? → No. Full performance is very rare. - Which theatres would offer simultaneous translation headsets in English for tourists? Without that headset with dialogue translations and background information I would have been lost. At the time we were told that the headsets provided were the ones used in Japan, however I can imagine that such a system would be costly and that not all theatres have them. → I am not sure, but I think theatres prepare headset, because even some Japanese need background information. And the KABUKI-ZA theatre is still under construction. You can see only the Shinbashi-enbujo. look at this site http://www.kabuki-bito.jp/eng/top.html
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