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Fine Arts Center
2/28/2009 8:00 PM at Awaji Puppet Theater A Traditional Japanese Puppetry Form
Bowker Auditorium, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003
Cost: $20, $15; Five College students & Youth under age 17: $15
Awaji Puppet Theater, designated by the Japanese Government as an Intangible Folk Asset, is a traditional Japanese puppet theater form with a history of over 500 years. This form is considered to be the cradle of all other Japanese puppet theater traditions, pulling together puppet-manipulation, live shamisen music, and recitation/narration. The intricate and gorgeously costumed puppets will perform three well known works from their repertory. Hidakagawa Iriaizakura, an intense dance piece of a lovelorn woman, Ebisumai, a light hearted dance of the Japanese god Ebisu and Tsubosaka Reigen-ki, a powerful drama of suspicion and intrigue.
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