The folk puppet play Kkoktukaksi, named after the wife of the main character, is still performed in the summer months in South Korea by farmers in troupes of six or seven players and musicians.
In his case, the feverishness of carnival life, an abusive father, poverty, repressed sexuality, all manifest themselves in troupes of ghostly, painted figures hovering between memory and the circus of imagination.
In Tibet troupes of actors specialize in performances of Buddhist legends.
In recent years, troupes of funky, design-minded boutique properties have opened as an alternative to the Argentine capital's more traditional high-end hotels.
She was a law student and Koma was studying political science when they met in Tokyo in 1971 as performers in the troupe of Tatsumi Hijikata, a developer of the Japanese avant-garde theater form of Butoh.
Similar to Merce Cunningham, who passed away at 90 in 2009, Taylor danced in the troupe of modern-dance pioneer Martha Graham early in his career.
This bittersweet comedy is also set largely in Naples and stars Aniello Arena, who began his theatrical career while in jail, working in a troupe of Italian convicts.
For me it's the most riveting piece on display at the Courtauld, but there's one other important strand in this exhibition, which traces Rodin's interest in a troupe of classical Cambodian dancers who visited France in 1906.
Goethe's primordial bildungsroman, "Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship," from the seventeen-nineties, is the story of a bourgeois scion who follows his inclination for a career in theatre and finds himself in a troupe of exotic, mysterious outcasts who remain just beyond the edge of the respectable.
In a parallel tradition, troupes of prepubescent boys known as gotipuas performed a more acrobatic version of this graceful, swaying dance at festivals.
In conjunction with a local organization, J-PAL had set this morality play in motion, hiring ten troupes of actors, each one identically equipped: ten vans, ten maroon turbans.
