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Why Kabuki stagehands dress in black
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Because ignoring the guy moving a giant prop right in front of you is the pinnacle of audience immersion. Japanese Kabuki theater relies on stagehands dressed entirely in black cloth to manipulate sets during a performance. The audience is simply expected to collectively hallucinate that these painfully obvious human beings do not exist.
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