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ROLES The following list shows the titles of the main dramas played in Garasu no Kamen with their respective authors, summary and some additional info.
Summary: Armand Duval, a young law student, falls passionately in love with Marguerite Gautier, known as Camille, a notorious Parisian courtesan. Armand forsakes his family and career, Marguerite abandons her friends for him, and they pass the days happily in a country retreat. They soon find themselves without money; consequently, Armand arranges for Marguerite to receive his small legacy, and, unknown to him, Marguerite plans to sell her possessions. Armand's father learns of the situation and determines to save the family name from disgrace. He persuades Marguerite to give up Armand, and she reverts to her former life of debauchery. Visiting a gambling house one evening she encounters Armand; believing himself abandoned for the Count de Varville's wealth, he denounces her before the crowd. Abandoned and ill, Marguerite finally dies in her home, clasping Armand's only gift, a copy of Manon Lescaut. Sakurakoji plays Armand in a second version of this play with another actress as Marguerite. You can read the book online here La Traviata, the famous opera by Verdi was based on a book by Alexandre Dumas, La Dame aux Camelias. The plot is mostly the same although the character names are different. Marguerite in the book changes to Violetta and Armand is Alfredo.
Summary: A prince from a country far away is looking for a bride. He must choose a woman both beautiful and with a benevolent soul from among the girls in the country. The king and the prince test them in many ways. There is a villain on death row but the king will spare his life if there is a woman willing to marry him. Mary Ann who has passed all the earlier tests decides to give up on becoming the queen in order to save the man about to be executed. However that criminal was in reality the prince. Mary Ann had proven herself to have a rare benevolence and was accepted to become the prince's bride. Maya plays Bibi, the fool. She's ugly, poor and everybody laughs at her. She's willing to marry the villain on death row but he prefers dying.
Summary: Madame White Rose's daughter is handicapped. She receives an invitation for a party but when she gets there she discovers it's a ball and gets depressed because she can't dance. Madame White Rose has charm and beauty but if anyone dares to touch her, her thorns will draw their blood. Nobody can see her disguise.
Summary: Little Women is the story of The Marches, a family used to hard toil and suffering. Although Father March is away with the Union armies, the sisters Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth keep in high spirits with their mother. Their friendly gift of a Christmas holiday breakfast to a neighbouring family is an act of generosity rewarded with wealthy Mr. Laurence's gift of a surprise Christmas feast. However, despite their efforts to be good, the girls show faults: the pretty Meg becomes discontented with the children she teaches; boyish Jo loses her temper regularly; while the golden-haired schoolgirl Amy is inclined towards affectation. However, Beth, who keeps the house is always kind and gentle. After certain happy times winning over the Laurences, dark times arrive as Mrs March finds out about her husband's illness. Worse is to come as Beth contracts scarlet fever in her Samaritan efforts for a sick neighbour and becomes more or less an invalid. The novel tells of their progress into young womanhood with the additional strains of romance, Beth's terminal illness, the pressures of marriage and the outside world. You can read the book online here
Summary: Take Kurabe takes place during the Edo era, in the beginning of Yoshibara Meiji time. There were two clas-mates who were of different social classes, one belonged to the upper, the other to the lower. The two social classes didn't get along. Midori was a beautiful yet stubborn girl. Her older sister Oiran Tamaki was a famous geisha in Edo. She had power, wealth and many noble friends. Shinyo was the son of a priest, quite and smart. During the night of summer festival Chokichi, the son of yakuza leader and friend of Shinyo threw his sandals at Midori, calling her trash so Midori thought Shinyo hated her too. Midori and Shinyo went to the same school but he always avoided her. On a rainy day Shinyo stopped in front of Midori's house to fix his broken sandal, Midori throw a piece of cloth at him but he ignored it. Some time later the time for Midori to become an adult came but she didn't want to. After that day she became qiet and stopped hunging around with her friends. One morning she found a bouquet of daffodils on the front door. Shinyo had left on a distant journey.
Summary: Hans leaves his family and his girlfriend Maria searching for a place called Ekundora. He arrives to a crossroads, chooses the right path and meets some adventurers riding motorbikes. He goes with them and turns into a hitman but he's not satisfied and wants to turn back. He then chooses the left path where he meets a rich woman but then a murderer takes everything away from him. He takes the middle one which leads him to the path of success as a famous singer. But he isn't free to fall in love due to his fame so at the end, he decides to turn back to his village and live a peaceful life with his girlfriend.
Summary: A story from the end of the Meiji Era. The noble Takanami and his family went bankrupt when the era changed. Only Miya, the only daughter still guarded the good name of the noble family like her grandmother had taught her.
Summary: In a house in the woods far away from town, lived a girl named Gina. One day when her father was out , she was asked to watch over five blue pots. She was alone in the house so when things started happening, she had to save herself and the pots.
Summary: Yoko, a girl really good at palying tennis discovers she only has six months to live. Maya plays a patient in the same hospital whose left leg, paralyzed because of Polio, is going to be amputated.
Summary: Celine lived in the countryside with her parents. After their death she's adopted by her uncle, sir Russford and goes to the court with him. The queen's nephew and heir, Luvan, falls in love with her and the queen agrees to the marriage since Celine comes from a good family and has good manners. However Celine is in love with someone else.
Summary: In a small, rickety house in the ancient city of London a boy named Tom Canty was born. On the other side of this city a boy called Edward Tudor, the prince of England, was born at the same moment. One fatefull day curious Tom decides to visit the prince's palace. When Tom and Edward meet, they see each other's resemblance. Edward then suggests to dress up as each other, and that's exactly what they do. Edward (dressed up as Tom) then runs off to Tom's home to warn Tom's father to treat his son properly, but a string of unfortunate events causes Edward to be instead captured by Tom's vicious father. Luckily Edward is rescued by Miles Hendon, a man who is to rule Hendon Hall and its surrounding village. Tom, in the meanwhile, is getting pampered by hundreds of servants, lords, dukes, and any other royal person imaginable. They are convinced that the prince has gone crazy, and humble Tom is very confused when the old king dies and he is to be king. You can read the book online here
Summary: This story takes place in the Meiji era. A woman named Shino marries a rich and powerful nobleman. She suffers since society expects her to be the perfect wife. In addition her husband is violent and never pays attention to her. One day she falls in love with one of her servants, Tamiji, and runs away with him. At the end she realizes her position, hides her feelings and returns to her previous life full of suffering. Maya plays Tazu, a babysitter, who knows all her mistress' secrets and is on her side.
Summary: In around 1760, a gentleman-farmer named Earnshaw went from his farm, Wuthering Heights, to Liverpool on a business trip. He found there a little boy who looked like a gypsy who had apparently been abandoned on the streets, and brought the child home with him, to join his own family of his wife, his son Hindley, his daughter Catherine. He named the boy Heathcliff after a son of his who had died. All the other members of the household were opposed to the introduction of a strange boy, except for Catherine, who was a little younger than Heathcliff and became fast friends with him. Hindley bullied Heathcliff when he could, and Heathcliff used his influence over Earnshaw to get his way. Heathcliff was a strange, silent boy, who appeared not to mind the blows he received from Hindley, although he was in fact very vindictive... You can read the book online here
Summary: The story is set in the mid 1900s in London. The aristocrat owner of Bartholomew's steel mill passed away along with his wife in a plane crash. His fortune passed to his only daughter, the sickly Marissa. She hired a lawyer to produce her own last will. Marissa chose as her heir her beloved doll, Elizabeth. Several people wanted to get the fortune for themselves so they tried to get the doll at any cost.
Summary: The story of Count Kaidoji's family, in the Meiji era. Yukihiro, the fifth son of the family likes to waste the money. He runs away from home. His daughter Chie, whose mother is a geisha, grows up as a lonely girl. Yukihiro joins a travelling troupe. Chie, fed up with humilliations, goes to find her father but her grandfather and uncle arrange a marriage for her, causing the breakdown of the Kaidojis.
Summary: Drawing heavily from letters written by Anne Sullivan in 1887, as well as from Helen Keller's autobiography, William Gibson constructed a drama around the events that took place when Helen Keller and her teacher, Anne Sullivan, first met in the 1880s. Deaf, blind, and mute twelve-year-old Helen Keller was like a wild animal. Scared out of her wits but still murderously strong, she clawed and struggled against all who tried to help her. Half-blind herself, but blessed with fanatical dedication, Annie Sullivan began a titanic struggle to release the young girl from the terrifying prison of eternal darkness and silence.
Summary: This story takes place in the Meiji era. A village samurai has four children. One of them is Heishiro Machi, a famous rascal who runs off to Tokyo after being berated by his father and stepmother. On his way he meets Hachirouemon Matsuhashi, a rich land lord who asks Heishiro to stay with him and puts him in a school. Heishiro learns all the marvels of the east, but nothing truly appeals to him. Three years laters he goes to Tokyo with a doctor specialized in western medicine. On a stop over in Yokohama he meets some westerns and Orin, his future wife in a steamboat. Orin hates count Tanuma whose children Mitsuru and Satoko are Heishiro's best friends.
Summary: An actress who has an amnesia after an accident decides to start a new life. She takes a new name and creates her own past. However there's one thing she remembers from her true past. Youji , the guy who hit her when she was walking in the fog tries to help her recovering her memories and they start to fall in love with each other although Youji has a girlfriend and she was promised to another man.
Summary: Mio joins a safari team searching for her missing father. He went with a group of geologists three years before. Only one of them returned alive and before dying he said domething about a fairy kingdom in the jungle where everything is white like pearls. People who enters the kingdom nevers returns. Mio is convinced her father is still alive.
Summary: Lyla is a priestess who looks like a normal girl, but she's in fact 120 years old. She never ages and never dies. She predicts the destruction of the country if the five white shadows aren't captured and thrown into the white lion valley.
Summary: The story takes place in a village in England in the 18th century. There is a small apple orchard in-between two lands owned by two different nobles. Every incident caused by those noblemen will have an effect on the orchard whose owner is Joseph, an old man. He has two grandaughters, Marge, a mischievous and cheerful 13-years-old girl and Bell, the older.
Summary: Laura (Maria in the play), the narrator, meets Carmilla first time in her childhood, and then again at the age of 19. Carmilla is a vampire, Countess Mircalla Karnstein, who has lived hundreds of years. However, first the narrator and her father do not believe in supernatural explanations. Eventually Carmilla is tracked to Karnstein castle where her grave is opened and she is killed with the ancient practice - a sharp stake is driven through her heart. Laura travels with her father to Italy, but she cannot forget Carmilla. You can read the book online here
Summary: Princess Diamond although shown as being ruthless and cruel (she punishes farmers with taxes and beats her servant for spilling tea on her kimono) is actually a nice and loving person inside. Villagers call her Yasha-Hime. She shows her caring nature saving a beggar and his daughter Toki from some villagers who were bullying them.
Summary: 400 years ago a pirate ship and its crew notorious for causing unrest in the Aegean sea is finally caught. The ship is turned into a makeshift courthouse. There is a woman dressed as a man among the pirates. Her real name is Bianca Castani and used to be the royal princess from Venice. She was arranged to marry the duke Lorenzo Olenchini from Genova whom she fell in love with after meeting him. But two years before the wedding hostile nations launched campaigns in hope of preventing the marriage so Bianca was placed under the protection of a swordsmith named Albert. Bianca fell into a trap, she was blamed for the death of Lorenzo's sister. Since she couldn't prove her innocence she disguides as a man and boarded a ship to Greece with Albert but a pirate ship captured them and sold them as slaves. Silver, the leader of a band of pirates bought them and they became pirates.
Summary: Hiromi Sato is a high school student. Her father is a regular employee and her mother is a good cook. She has a younger sister and an older brother and has a secret crush on the soccer capitan at school. One day as she is helping a friend who has passed out she is caught in the rain and sees her father with another woman. She tries to make everything she can to save her family from breaking up.
A monologue play based in Romeo and Juliet from Shakespeare. Summary: In Verona, Italy in the late 1500's, two powerful families the Montagues and the Capulets have been feuding with each other for years. Romeo, only son of the Montagues, is hopelessly in love with the unattainable Rosaline. In hope that meeting other girls will shake him out of his melancholy, his friends Mercutio and Benvolio persuade him to go to a party at Capulet's house. Romeo agrees, hoping to see Rosaline there. Instead he meets and falls instantly in love with Juliet, Capulet's only daughter. She returns his love. With the help of Juliet's Nurse, they are secretly married the next day by Friar Lawrence. Juliet learns that her parents plan to marry her to Count Paris. Friar Lawrence devises a plan. He gives her a drug which will make her appear to have died. The Friar hopes that her parents will place her in the family tomb and when she awakes from her drugged sleep, she will find Romeo waiting for her. The Friar writes to Romeo to tell him of the plan, but Romeo never receives the letter. Romeo hears of Juliet's death and returns to Verona, to see her in the Capulet tomb. There he finds Paris, whom he murders. Romeo enters the tomb, finds Juliet's 'corpse' and poisons himself. Juliet wakes to find Romeo dead. Unable to live without him, she stabs herself. The Capulets and Montagues, united in grief, vow to end their feud.
Summary: A story inspired by the ballet Coppelia. Coppelius is an expert at mechanical enginering. One day a man comissions him to create a beautiful doll, Olampia, his work number 707. But soon the doll starts showing failures leading to some misunderstandings and mixed up situations.
Summary: Theseus announces he will marry Hippolyta, the Queen of the Amazons in four days. He hears Egeus' complaint that his daughter Hermia refuses to marry his chosen suitor Demetrius, since she's in love with Lysander, whom Egeus dislikes. Theseus declares Hermia must marry Demetrius or choose between death or joining a nunnery. Lysander instructs Hermia to flee to the forest with him so that they can travel to his aunt's house to marry. Hermia's friend Helena, learns of this and decides to inform Demetrius, whom she likes. Demetrius though, loves Hermia. Oberon (the King of the Fairies) argues with Titania (the Fairy Queen) that he should have her orphan child as his page. Titania objects, asserting she is queen. They bicker that Oberon loves Hippolyta and Titania loves Theseus. To obtain the boy, Oberon orders the fairy Puck to obtain a flower from Cupid that causes people to fall in love with the first person that that person sees. Oberon plans to give it to Titania, so she'll love a vile thing and give him the child. Demetrius and Helena appear, Helena pursuing him and he fleeing her. Puck arrives with the flower, and Oberon orders Puck to anoint Demetrius with it so he'll love Helena rather than Hermia. Oberon then anoints Titania with the flower. In the forest, Lysander and Hermia lie down to rest. Puck, thinking Lysander is Demetrius, anoints him with the flower. Helena appears and awakes Lysander, who immediately falls in love with her. Puck transforms Bottom to have an donkey's head. Titania awakes and falls in love with Bottom and orders her fairy servants to attend to him. Puck observes that Demetrius chases Hermia, yet she accuses him of murdering Lysander, and realises he gave the flower to the wrong man. Oberon tries to remedy this by anointing Lysander with the flower so he'll fall in love with Helena - and he does. However, now both men love Helena, while she believes both are false. Hermia arrives and Helena accuses her of conspiring with the men to tease her. Oberon, realising Puck has caused these problems, orders him to make a thick fog to separate the four people and force them into a deep sleep so the spell can wear off. Oberon awakes Titania and transforms Bottom back to a human. Oberon and Titania then make up and love each other again. In the woods, Theseus, Hippolyta, and Egeus appear and awake the four. Demetrius and Lysander inform the men of their love for Helena and Hermia. The lords agree to let them marry. You can read the book online here
Summary: The Queen of Lastonia is sued by the Godfred family, so she is executed and her daughter Origeld is imprisoned. The king marries a woman from that family and princess Aldis and prince Johan are born. Princess Aldis is sweet and beautiful, whereas Princess Origeld, who lived in prison for years, is full of hatred and desire for revenge. On her 13th birthday party, Aldis meets Julius, the son of a foreign count. Origeld agrees to become a nun but kills Baron Byorson, discovering a complot against the king. Aldis must marry the prince from Erinwald against her will, so Origeld offers to take her place, expecting to be recognized by the king as his daughter. The king gives her Lastonia heirloom, the dragon wing sword and a necklace. Finally Origeld wins her father's heart and is accepted as a princess in the castle, meeting Aldis. Lastonia and Harland are at war and Origeld takes the chance to carry out her revenge. She sent doctors from Erinwald so the people from Lastonia rebels against the royal family since they don't feel protected by them. Only Aldis can calm them. Aldis goes to Harland for a peace offering but Origeld sent Erinwald soldiers to help Lastonia which breaks the agreement and defeats Harland, killing the king and queen. Prince Johan is killed when he is hunting in the forest. The King dies. Count Godfred, who had planned to kill Origeld is sued by her who knew about his plans all along. She imprisons her enemies and sentences them to death with the help of her husband's soldiers. Aldis's mother and grandfather are beheaded and she's imprisoned with her lady in waiting for three years. Origeld decides not to kill her yet, since Aldis is her weapon against Erinwald. She has a nightmare and Haldra, the queen mother, warns her to change her behaviour for the last time. Origeld's husband, feels used by her and tells her he would marry the more beautiful and sweet Aldis if she were killed. Origeld goes to visit Aldis hiding a knife and tells her how much she hates her since she took everything away from her. However Aldis still loves her sister. Origeld lets her run away with Julius and they go to another country, living an ordinary life. Aldis watches over her country from afar. Origeld becomes the queen of Lastonia and although she got her revenge she still feels cold inside.
Summary: This play is a musical about Isadora Duncan's life. She was known as the mother of "modern dance," founding the "New System" of interpretive dance, blending together poetry, music and the rhythms of nature. She did not believe in the formality of conventional ballet and gave birth to a more free form of dance, dancing barefoot and in simple Greek apparel. Isadora did not believe in marriage but did have love affairs with stage designer Gordon Graig and millionaire Eugene Singer and had a child by each. Her children, Deirdre and Patrick were tragically and accidentally drowned in the Seine.
Summary: Jane is a girl raised by wolves. Her sister dies and a Young man called Stuart finds her and tries to make her into a human girl. He teaches her to walk and act like one. Stuart is the only person Jane can trust. She discovers her human nature by smelling his scarf and gets really sad when Stuart is dying.
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