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Eastern Theatre
Brendan Ma
Erik Trask
Rodrigo Barrera
Catherine Hua
Per 3
Events and Dates
• 14th century- Noh
Theater was known
• 1603 Kabuki Theatre
begins
• 1684 Banruku
Theatre started
• 1790 Peking Opera
started but was well
known in mid 19th
Century
• 1949 Peking Opera
was censored and
taken over with
military propaganda
• All these still exist
today.
Locations
• The National Noh Theater
is a public theater in
Tokyo Japan
• Banruku Puppet Theatre
is in Osaka, Japan
• Kabukiza Theater in the
Ginza district of Tokyo
• Liyuan Theatre in Beijing
Noh Theater
Kabukiza
Authors and Playwrights
• Peking Opera - Wu
Zuguang “A Child
Prodigy in Drama”
• Noh - Zeami Motokiyo
(1364-1443) Father of
Noh Theater
• Banruku- Chikamatsu
Monzaemon (16531752) known as
“Japanese
Shakespeare”
• Chikamatsu
Plays
• Peking operas- Havoc Havoc in Heaven
in Heaven, Eight
Model Plays (military
plays)
• Kabuki PlaySugawara and the
Secrets of Calligraphy
• Noh Play- Hagoromo Sugawara
(The Feather Mantle)
Theatre House or Stage Area
• Kabuki Stage was a
raised wooden
platform
• Noh stage – an
extremely simplified
space
Costumes and Makeup
•
Kabuki basic costume –
kimono, no masks
• Peking Opera- male
warriors and heroes wear
face masks
• Makeup: face painted
white with bold lines
usually red or blue.
• Wigs – usually black