Kabuki Comedy; "Kabuki in Washington" Wednesday Warner Theatre 202- 397-7328

The Washington Post | July 23, 2004| | Copyright

LIKE SO MUCH in traditional Japanese culture, Kabuki is highly formal and stylized. Yet it can also be raucous, visceral and broadly comic. Alex Kerr, a Bethesda-born writer on Japanese culture and aesthetics, has characterized Kabuki as possessing "the perfect balance between sensuality and ritual, which are the two poles of Japanese culture."

That balance may favor sensuality, however, when a troupe headed by actor Nakamura Kankuro V performs "Bo-shibari" and "Renjishi" Wednesday night at the Warner Theatre. Both plays emphasize the comic side of Kabuki, a form that began to evolve about ...

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