ABSTRACT
The performers may wear costumes appropriate to their roles in the skits. Older women, dressed in ill-fitting male attire, may act as clowns. Actors shout their lines to one another, sometimes drowned out by roars of laughter from the audience. The coarseness of the presentation-in costume, clowning, and language (which may veer into bawdry and indelicacy)—counterpoints the elegance of the rest of the celebration. — A L L A N THOMAS
Manihiki
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