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mbarkerThat's amusing. Apparently one of the fine points of rakugo presentations concerns how many characters are being juggled. These are comic monologues, and the basic stories are pretty much set. But in Manju Kowai, for example, one of the challenges that the teacher may give the student is to increase the number of characters - the base story is usually five, but try it with ten. How do you keep them individual, give them individual likes and fears, and make the audience enjoy the crowd?
Might make a good writer's exercise, too? Take a basic story, and redo it - with more characters. What happens when the love triangle turns into a polygon? How many angles can you handle?
Might make a good writer's exercise, too? Take a basic story, and redo it - with more characters. What happens when the love triangle turns into a polygon? How many angles can you handle?
