Dance form’s origins imagined in ‘Okuni: The Woman Who Created Kabuki’
By SCOTTY BENNETT Okuni: The Woman Who Created Kabuki by Ako Dachs is a limited, fictionalized account of the woman who is thought to have created kabuki. It is generally accepted that the dance and theater form called kabuki developed in late 17th Century Japan, but its exact details lack solid evidence. This production is…