息子が部活動で狂言「蝸牛」を披露する
わが息子が部活動で４年前から狂言をやっている。今回披露したのは「蝸牛」という有名な曲でした。５００年前の古い日本語でセリフをいうもので、オラにはちょっと分かりにくいけど、あの声を聞いて、はっきり言って、しびれた。いつものと全然違う。
蝸牛のストリーが面白くて、アクションもたっぷり。でも、何よりも、息子の努力に感動した。よく頑張った
あの狂言の声、どっから来ているんだべ？
My son performed Kyogen recently at his school. He has been doing this tradional Japanese comedy art-form for four years now. I think he has that distinct Kyogen voice down pat.
Kyogen started way back in the 1500s as a sort of comic intermission to lighten the atmosphere of the stricter and more moralistic Noh theater performances. Recently, it has gained a following among modern Japanese in its own right.
Last time I went to a Kyogen performance in Tokyo in 2009, it was sold out months in advance, and the audience was full of young women. And this art form is over 500 years old. Now THAT’s star power.
Opera and Shakespeare. Eat your heart out.
