A classic manga by Ryoko Yamagishi featuring Prince Shotoku of ancient Japan will be adapted into a traditional Noh-kyogen ...

Kyogen speaks to Slovaks IF THE LANGUAGE barrier has previously acted to prevent kyogen, a traditional form of Japanese theatre, from appealing to audiences in Slovakia, then a performance on February ...

Kyogen master Nomura Manzo IX performs his craft which he learned from his father and grandfather. In Japanese theater, it is often thought that there are three main genres: Noh, Kabuki and Bunraku.

About kyogen “It is not that easy to get to see true kyogen theatre in Japan, either,” Master Motohiko Shigeyama, the tutor, director and actor of the Malé divadlo kjógenu / Small Theatre of Kyogen ...

Kyogen, short comic or satirical plays, served the purpose of breaking up those lengthy shows. And, like Shakespeare's comic relief skits in tragedies, they also added some levity.

Keene's connection with "kyogen" comedic stage productions was deep. He was first introduced to the art as an international student at Kyoto University around the end of 1953, when he was 31. The ...

As part of its 2015-2016 Performing Arts Season, Japan Society presents A Night of Kyogen with Mansaku Nomura and Mansaku-no-Kai Kyogen Company, bringing this renowned company back to Japan ...

In the uncompromisingly bleak Japanese Noh drama, existence itself is the only joke. But Kyogen -- the comic counterpart to Noh -- has been making fun of human foibles and pretensions for more ...

Theater Japan / NOH and KYOGEN Join us for a rare opportunity to experience traditional Japanese theater in New York. Master performers of Noh and Kyogen will explain the form’s essentials: the stage, ...

The comedic stage art of kyogen emerged about 600 years ago. One of its most popular pieces is introduced, demonstrating the ...

TEHRAN – A Persian translation of “Kyogen Book: An Anthology of Japanese Classical Comedies” by Don Kenny, an American who performs kyogen in English in Japan, has recently been published in Tehran.