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- Title
Conflicted Loyalties in "English Kabuki": Portland's English Kabuki Revenge of the 47 Samurai (Kanadehon Chūshingura).
- Authors
Salz, Jonah
- Abstract
Portland State University presented an English version of the kabuki classic Kanadehon Chūshingura in February 2016 under the direction of Laurence Kominz. This article examines the challenges and rewards in training in Asian theatre forms in the American classrooms, and those particular to mounting this play, including the problems inherent in English-language adaptation. A product of the tensions of goals of Authenticity, Education, and Entertainment, the production drew on multiple sources of authority, foremost the kabuki original and seminal 1979 University of Hawaii production. The production appears to have succeeded as a learning experience for students and entertainment for general audiences, a creative reconstruction pointing towards a new mode of producing English kabuki.
- Subjects
KABUKI plays; KOMINZ, Laurence; BUNRAKU; JAPANESE drama; FORTY-seven Ronin; PORTLAND State University; ENGLISH translations of drama
- Publication
Asian Theatre Journal, 2018, Vol 35, Issue 1, p133
- ISSN
0742-5457
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/atj.2018.0017