CEAS Cultural Event: An Evening of Traditional Noh Drama

CEAS Cultural Event: An Evening of Traditional Noh Drama

Thursday, February 5, 2009 - 6:30pm to 8:00pm
Room 201, Sudler Hall in William L. Harkness Hall See map
100 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06511

Noh Theater is one of the oldest surviving performing arts of Japan, and makes use of masks, lavish costumes, and a range of stylized gestures to bring characters from traditional Japanese myth and literature to life onstage. The Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University is pleased to announce that members of the Kashu-juku Noh Troupe will be performing on campus the evening of February 5th, 2009. These professional actors will perform part of a Noh play, after which they will engage the audience in discussion about elements of the performance, costuming, music, and their philosophies of training and acting as contemporary practitioners of this vibrant theater form. —Event is free and open to the public—

Region: 
Japan