Bunraku

Last night CRB & JAL took us to see Osaka's National Bunraku Theatre at Northwestern. Although I would have enjoyed it a touch more if I hadn't gotten up so early with the dogs and hadn't had quite so much sake to drink at dinner, it was still astoundingly great. Besides the two excerpted dramas they performed, there was also a didactic interlude where the narrator, samisen player, and puppeteer talked about and demonstrated their respective crafts. Wikipedia spares me from parroting back what I learned about bunraku :-)

Did anybody down in CU catch the Krannert performance this past weekend?