(10-10-2020, 04:38 PM)Star Ranger4 Wrote: ...In my understanding of things;
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can't say your wrong about that.
what I can say..... is those folk in black? were they 'stage crew' or the Monsters of the 'day'/week.... or both?
A Kobuki show which is a mixture of Music Dance and Theater (which these stage Shows could possibly counted as) the Stage hands, and "unimportant" background characters, would wear black as a sign that they were to be ignored so as not to upstage the Main Characters of the scene. Most of these were the people that would change the Scenery around while the play was ongoing to represent either travel, or a changing point of view.
The Idea was that the audience would focus on the main act as it moved around the stage, while the rest of the Kobuki would pick up and rearrange the set and backgrounds that were "Out of Focus".
So the People in black are Stage crew, and the Evil one's Minion creatures, as needed. The necessary "Extras" that can be ignored, or over looked.
I hope that helps.