After watching Kathakali, it is a performing by an actor who makes up and dress up with many kinds of colors. Mostly, the actors facial expression is interested for me as it said. And an actor is performing by people’s singing and I feel like song is kind of Chorus. Under the song, an actor is performing like dancing but it is close to gesture. I didn’t understand with this, but through the second video, it is not singing. It is like story telling. And under this story telling, an actor follows to describe story telling. It is very interesting that an actor doesn’t mention anything, but performs by only body motion.

Through the reading, in early centuries asia countries like China and Japan, their theatric performance was derived from religious pratice for gods like an encient Greek. Why religious performance was important in China and Japan,  and did it have same purpose like ancient greek that hope to maintain the world or other purpose?

In the play Bacchae, it shows tragic ending that Agave kills her son Pentheus herself because she is driven mad by God, Dionysus, for his revenge. Like Bacchae, many of plays in ancient Greek personified and described Gods that they abuse their power. Why did people in ancient Greek prefer to write about tragic plays and God’s wrong behaviors in plays? 

In Fifth-century Athens,  playwrights, performers and producers often presented plays that commented on  current social and political problems. Even political issues were mentioned in the plays, was there any interference or punishment from politicians? Were people free from speech during that time?

In the article “Contraband:”Performance, Text and Analysis of a ”Purim-Shpil”, according to Shatzky notes, texts were preserved in the memories of the actors in 1825 or 1826. So, no one needed to know entire script. Do you think that performing with script is necessary for topicality even without script actors depended on each other improvised, to reconstruct a full play from the parts they had that showed different performing every time to audience?