Source: Gendai Engeki 60's-90's, p. 45

The original performance was done in a Noh theater, and Komachi entered excrutiatingly slowly along the hashigakari bridge. How is this entrance similar to a Noh character entering? How different? According to Ota Shogo, how does this slow entrance set up the rest of the play?

Having entered the stage, Komachi stands and then sits on a small square of tatami matting. The other characters then burst in and bring the pieces of the set (low table, shoji screen behind etc.) and place it around her to create a delapidated apartment.

A different performance with different costuming for Komachi. Here, as she remembers her past beauty, a second actor appears as her youthful self. See below for a different version of this scene:

The above is from a 1986 performance of Komachi Fuden by Yuriko Doi, founder of Theatre of Yugen in San Francisco. See more images here and here. The first blog link also includes images from the Noh play Kayoi Komachisee also images from Sotoba Komachi. See below for Komachi and the Fukakusa Captain in Komachi Fuden.

In this image from the original 1977 performance, Komachi recalls her youthful love affair with the "Fukakusa Captain," reinterpreted as a young naval captain who died during WWII.

Finally, for comparison, click here for a Butoh version of the Komachi story. Note that this a fairly recent piece.