Kyogen

• Both noh, through ti's persuit of a symbolic ideal beauty, and kyogen through it's realistic expression of humor, portray the true essence of human nature, and have been passed down to us today in these mutually complementary roles.
• Wild, precious words - kyogen
• developed alongside noh theatre
• over exaggerated movements
• themes: working class, the things that they go through in their day-to-day lives
• Morumachi period
• speech and dialect
• dishonesty, sympathy
• Zengaku entered japan during the nara period
• direct storyline and script used
• polished wood floor, raised from the audience
• any place on the stage can become a 'place'
• minimal props, no stage equipment, no fancy things
• backdrop of hand-painted pine trees
• Green room where the actor is in isolation and calmness before they go on stage
• announcement of who you are when you get up on stage
• movement styles - gliding walk
• your centre is the hara
• role of stillness, minimalism
• completely choreographed to perfection
• nowadays, you have a set of strict gestures
• all movement comes from a place of stillness
• dialogue is always done closer to the audience
• they don't use masks as much
• instead of masks they use make-up
• strict separation of actors and chorus.