Confusion

Okay I really had no idea what was going on in this play and I'm so glad I wasn't the only one. But I don’t think it was the translation I just couldn’t get the story line. I've just one question, was the movie suppose to help clear things up? At all? Because for me if it wasn't for the subtitles and the overview by Amy I would not have been able to partially keep up. I can understand the actors wanting to symbolize important parts of the play but I never got how the princess was in a jealous frenzy, until I was told about it. First of all she was just standing there, Second even if she were walking slowly maybe a bit more gesture would have helped, just a little, she was so still. However I do think that the rhythmic walking was cool, and because the music was so repetitive it must have helped out with staying in step. Crossing the bridge was suppose to indicate distance right or was it the walking very slowly and sedately the way how?


I read Meredith's post and some of the same questions she asked I thought up myself, but the main one that kept recurring to me was what happened to the sick princess/lady Aoi? The entire play was about the princess and her jealousy, what about the person who was affected by it. Did she die? Get better, become an invalid, did she get better and try to get revenge on Rokujo? What happened to this woman, it seems like she was a driving figure in the plot considering she was the cause of the princess's jealousy.