OOC
I was going to point out that Kabuki hadn't been invented at the time this game took place and neither was Bunraku-- even Noh theater wasn't in his finalized form.
But some sort of Noh theater existed as far back as the 12th-13th century. I suppose that just means that the more annoying aspect of Noh which Kabuki was pretty much a complete counter to was nearly, but not fully manifested.
By which I mean-- the whole thing that makes Noh theater "noh" or skillful is that they try to tell the story with as little movement and action as possible as well as no words except in the musical accompaniment and even that doesn't really express a story much. In fact-- if you don't already know the story, it's almost impossible to enjoy noh as anything but kind of ironically.
Also Noh stories tend to be very, very traditional tales-- it limits itself to a fairly small set of mythological and historical stories for the most part.
So earlier theater traditions almost certainly used more action, dialogue and narration to tell their story.
Kabuki was an entire counter-cultural movement to that, started in Kyoto by a woman named O-Kui, and the Kabuki performances-- being a counter to Noh-- use a lot of over-exaggerated physical movements, plenty of dialogue and the stories are generally fiction or, perhaps at times, historically inspired fiction. But O-Kuni's performances won't begin until a whole decade after our game is set.