Samurai swords, and spectacular fighting, and
melodrama with a woman suffering from love, dying from love.
And after that, in Europe, they reduced repertoire even further
to "The Geisha in the Night", which was not actually a play, but
a sort of concoction, made up of,
dramatic, scenes, easily understandable, and, effects, which were,
preferred by the audiences.
>> And it's well known that their performances in Europe,
especially held a record traction for the European avant garde.
And in fact, it's often said that they influenced the avant garde with
the development of avant garde theater.
What is your reading of that?
>> Now, European spectators, and among them the intellectual theater-goers,
tried to read their performances against their own background
of theater, avant garde theater.
They saw in them their own ideas of symbolism,
as Japanese theaters always tends to abstraction and,