The Star Wars Kyogen performance was headed up by Senzaburo Shigeyama, a modern master of the style.
Kyogen developed alongside Noh, serving as an intermission piece at times, but is deliberately funny where Noh is purely dramatic.
R2-D2, C-3PO, and Darth Vader were reimagined in the context of Kyogen, a masked comedic style of Japanese theater.
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