- Kabuki: 高時, 西郷と豚姫, 素襖落, 外郎売 (Takatoki, Saigo and the Pig Princess, Suo Otoshi, The Medicine Peddler)
7/24/19 (Wed), Tokyo Kabukiza
This month’s performance was completely sold out on the strength of a six-year-old actor, son of superstar Ebizo, taking on a role usually played by an adult. The boy is often featured in his father’s widely followed blog, and Ebizo fever has basically enveloped him as well. The first three shows today were all Meiji or Taisho Era pieces that veer from traditional Kabuki in certain ways, while the last, in which the child appears, is a once-archaic Edo Era sketch that was revived/reconstructed in 1985.
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