Phillip Zarrilli
Kathakali Dance-Drama
Commentary
Phillip Zarrilli provides notes on the contents and context of the RPA’s introductory video to principles of kathakali, and its performance record of a full kathakali play, The Killing of Kirmira.
Videotaped in Kerala, India in 1993 and 1995, this film explains Kathakali's basic make-up types, the context of performance, the process and techniques of training, and performance preliminaries.
This video is a complete performance document of the approximately three and a half hour performance of a Kathakali play, The Killing of Kirmira.
- Drisyavedi
- India
- Kalamandalam Nelliyode Vasudevan Namboodiripad
- Kathakali
- Killimangalam Centre for Documentation of Performing Arts
- Kirmira Vadham
- Kottayam Tampuran
- M.P. Sankaran Namboodiri
- Margi Vijayakumar
- Phillip Zarrilli
- Prabodhachandran Nayar
- Ramachandran Pillai
- The Killing of Kirmira
- Tirtapatta Mandapam
- University of Wisconsin-Madison