ネイティブが教える英会話のジェムスクール☆Teachers☆

Pictured above is a shot of me and the same actress in one of my recent posts about attending the Japanese theatre. Her and I are pointing at our arms because one of my students broke her arm recently and I wanted to show her that I was thinking of her recovery. My student looks like this actress, so I thought it'd be in some good humor to show my student that I located her twin.

In that last shot she seemed to play the Angry dwarf. She was, at least, dressed in red and she put on an angry act when we took one of our pictures. While the last show was of a story I was familiar with (Snow White and the 7 Dwarves), this one I couldn’t really make heads or tails of. It was perhaps an original Japanese story. The director was the same as the last production and so displayed some of the expected ingenuity. In the last play the stage director integrated (included) interactions between the actors and the audience, which was partly composed (made up) of children. I wrote last time that in that production (of Snow White…) Malificent, or the evil witch, asked the audience who the most beautiful woman in Japan was, and the audience of children would respond that she was. Additionally, the audience helped pick the nick name for Snow White when she was discovered sleeping on the Dwarves’ beds, after it was agreed upon that she could stay with them. This time, this production made the stage the centerpiece of the production, a thing and cast member itself. In fact, the stage was a stage on a stage, since the actors stepped on and off of it, skipping around it and taking things off and onto the center stage from without. It was extraordinary and really reinvigorated (renewed) my drive to learn the language. What was happening on stage? Why did everyone keep leaving all their props on stage? One actor left his cigarette on it, another some sort of forbidden picture, and another some scissors and a table. The center stage just kept piling up with forgotten props, accumulating traces and clues of past actions. The name of the play was “The City of Memories,” if I remember correctly, and this must be why: the stage was the city and the props abandoned on it were the memories of all its inhabitants. I also gathered or guessed that the actors were aging, one actress even dying on stage. In the end, I think everyone passed away since all the actors then played animals that went on stage and then built lots of miniatures buildings out of the blocks that were lying around on the ground floor around the center stage. Wow, I wish I could describe more the experience I had.