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CoWriMo : On Theatre and the Jasiko
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In Lai, almost all theatrical performances take the form of speech. Dance and song are popular, but no type of performance is held in the same regard as the Jasiko. The Jasiko is a form of play where four people would stand on a stage, often on a roof or raised platform, and speak. No props are employed, and although costumes are often used, they’re very often based on archetype rather than tailored to each individual character. The most prominent of these are hats, which are donned and doffed as characters switch between roles. Most often, the actors involved in a play take four major roles. Two of these actors will take the role of the protagonists, characters of equal narrative importance who act as foil to each other. They support each other through their individual failings, and both are crucial for the plot. The third actor is the antagonist. They work against the goal or goals of both protagonists. It is not uncommon for these three actors to be indistinguishable at the start of the play, with the antagonist only becoming clear after circumstances cause their goals to go against the protagonists’. These three actors may also change hats to play as minor characters as well when their major character is offstage. The fourth main role is the narrator. They typically only speak between scenes, with a longer recap between acts for late-joining spectators, but they may also take the role of important minor characters who share the stage with all three major actors, or external influences such as spirits or gods. The narrator often wears a Ńomina [a very common type of folk costume].

The Jasiko is typically structured into four acts. During the first act, the characters’ traits and motivations are established. If the antagonist was not already apparent, and the three characters were all acting as potential protagonists, the end of act one is when their shift to antagonism occurs. Sometimes, this change is only shown to the audience, and the protagonists go unaware of their status until the end of the second act. During the second act, tensions build. The protagonists’ and the antagonist’s goals begin to clash, though no direct confrontations occur. If the antagonist's status was not yet clear to the protagonists, it is done at the end of act two. A direct confrontation occurs, and the protagonists suffer a major setback. The third act is spent attempting to recover from this setback. It is almost always the longest act, usually taking up nearly half of the play’s length. During the third act, the antagonist is less present, focusing on the protagonists’ growth, though sometimes the antagonist’s growth is explored too. Oftentimes, the protagonists split apart, with one of them sometimes joining the antagonist, though this is overcome by the end of the act. Additionally, the ramifications and consequences of the three characters’ actions in the first two acts are often explored, and both protagonists undergo significant development that ready them for the final act. Act four is traditionally the shortest act. The rising action at the beginning of the act parallels, but doesn’t copy, the second act’s structure, differentiating in ways that demonstrate the characters’ growth. The climax follows, being the final confrontation between the protagonists and the antagonist, and often involves a long dialogue between the opposing roles. Typically, the protagonists eventually triumph over the antagonist, though the victory often comes with large compromises or losses.

Afterwards, although it is not considered its own act, there is another pause which, instead of being narrated by the narrator, is broken up into two soliloquies (or three, if the antagonist is reformed and/or isn’t slain). Plays are often written to last a day [for you humans out there, don’t worry! it’s only about 4 hours; one of their planets’ rotations is only 9 or so hours]. A common tradition is to write and pace Jasiko such that the eclipse, which happens at the same time each day and lasts for about an hour, happens at the end of the second act, as the protagonists experience their defeat. This puts the resulting intermission and the beginning of the third act in darkness, setting the mood and leaving the stage lit by nothing but torch light. Actors in Jasiko are colloquially called “roof goblins”, due to the fact that amateur actors have a reputation of using people’s roofs as stages without permission. Wouldn’t you be mad if a bunch of loud teens were up on your roof mediocrely reciting drama? The name stuck, and so roof goblin is essentially a synonym for actor.

isi kisaki ta Jasiko


tokisi nala kisaki ositojo fa Laji. jisata jalifika ta miki saliso, lina i kisaki poso Jasiko saliso. Jasiko to kisaki isi jola ni oli jani amita fa woko ni oji to amasi wokońa tapo końapotojo finafo ta ifa osito. to i laki sapoti ta jisata to mijo ńomafa sapoti amasi lina to ifa foti noma ifa janijola ta i ńapa isijani nati. ńomafa a ijo kapo kimi namala ni to oji fawiti ta wowiti sama kisajini faloto la a isijani. amawo, fakotajo kisajini nati oli kapo isamika. jasi kisajini nati lapijani ni oji ńajo kapoposo kota. ifa fajako ńakita, ta ifa fajako popato jisata ifa a atońaka ta iji kapaso noma pikososili ńakita. ika ala kisajini fońajani. la mokati ijafa jasi lapijani a mijana. fońajani ta jasi lapijani to i wimasi maso Jasiko a janoto, ta fońajani nato jotajo masala to la a mijana falopoto iwońi lapijani a mijana. ji ika kisajini ifa a namala kanoto falopoto noma la kamosa kimo isijani nati sama la a isijani jiwo. oli ala kisajini oposijoni. la osito isa amawo nafa minopika ta la lokipati mawa ńipalaka nafa ominopika noma la kisaki fofoposiko wa jolajani ni oji fito koji. sata, la kapo kimo isijani kanoto nati ni oji okanata misa ika kapo isijani tapo la itowoko ńońo jiji ńanajani tapo apisajani nati. oposijoni Ńomina kowiti amasi.

Jasiko oli ominopika kota amawo. mawo ńaso ominopika, to isijani a ojoni ta mijana lanita. no to fońajani i jota fajano ta ika isijani japijani nati lina ńaso ominopika a ajaka to masa sama la nato fońajani. mańa, isa jolajani jota la nato o fońajani, ta jasi lapijani ji i jota ońimasa jasi ala ominopika a ajaka. soso iwoto maso jasi ala ominopika. jasi lapijani ta fońajani a mijana janoto ńito sata mawi nakaka i kita. no lapijani i jota o fońajani a ako lina ifa ji kanajoto kisi ji ominopika a ajaka. mala mawi nakaka kita ta lapijani opaso sosi pomota. lapijani ika ala ominopika jońato afa ifa woto ńofoti ńi kopi sosi. tokisi lamańa, ji to ijo ńipa ominopika ta la ńipati amawo toni kisaki isi jakimi. maso ika ala ominopika, fońajani amawo malatijo, ta kisaki solata fa lapijani a ojoni a iwoko. sata to fońajani a ojoni a iwoko lanita mańa kaso. amasi, lapijani ńajomita jisata to ji lojoti lamańa mijo ominopika a ajaka. tata, to ika isijini a ńaka a owipika ta minikowaka likanata ta iji lapijani lafijata ojoni a kakapo iwoko noma ifa nato ojala wa ajala ominopika. oli ala ominopika, ni oji alaja, to polasiwajo ojo ijo topa. maso janoko, iwotojo mokaso jasi ala ominopika a soliwo sonafoti sata la la i jafoti. la kamosa noma to latawati isijani a iwoko. końamaji kita kisi ajaka. la ajala ńiko nafa lapijani ta fońajani, ta la ńipa lokipaki nafa ifa fakota. sinamasa, lapijani fońajani lijati mańasa sata lijaki fito amasi afa opo owipika tapo ijoloka.

masala, jisata to la i lata to ńakitajo ominopika lina masalinopika ni taji oposijoni oji lokipati lina isijani oji lokipati afa jasi isasiko to. tata no fońajani kipito lokipati lina ika isasiko to ti. to kisaki foti amasi noma la ńipati toni aniwa. polasiwa olo, to Jasiko masato noma opasoli kita mijo jasi ala ominopika a ajaka nama lapijani ifa a ijoloka pomota. ji wati miwo afańoki ta ika ala ominopika a janoko to ipajaso noma to ńapika lanita ta kijo a kikijo woko afito isa. to Jasiko isi kisajini jajita “Wokońapopo” ila janajo kisajini jotajo noma ifa jani a wokońa sapoti wifa ańoki. ińo sa pati to jamo, no amo ijoja to fa sa a wokońa ta ifa Jasiko lokipati liso osajo. jajika ńipijata o ta Wokońapopo to isi ńajosikimi afa kisajini.

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