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1991, D and I have just begun dating. And we are in Claremont, California, with a couple of friends that I have convinced , along with D, to drive there with me from LA in my old Buick LeSabre to watch a Kabuki production.





It's a Kabuki-in-English performance.



The month is March.



Leonard Pronko is an acquaintance of mine. I took a class with him back in the days I was a student at the Claremont colleges.

As I am writing these lines I just found out that he's passed away, the old coot!



I remember him fondly.

I do not know that the production of Kabuki plays in English is still a thing like it was in those days—including at the University of Hawaii:



Nowadays, Kabuki has become a synonym for thetrical. It is often used to describe politicians suspected of acting insincerely to please their supporters and/or get maximum media attention.

Case in point:





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