1999 NEW YEAR PERFORMANCE / ACM Theatre

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1999 NEW YEAR PERFORMANCE
ACM Presents Debut of "Daten no Biyaku" (Aphrodisiac of the Fallen)
Written and Directed by Hirohisa Hasegawa

Jan. 29/30, 1999 (Fri, Sat) 7:00 p.m.
Jan. 31, 1999 (Sun) 4:00 p.m.
Feb. 5/6, 1999 (Fri, Sat) 7:00 p.m.
Feb. 7, 1999 (Sun) 4:00 p.m.
ACM Theatre
General ¥3,000
Groups (10 or more) ¥2,700
7th to 12th graders ¥1,500
All seats reserved. Tickets go on sale on Dec. 9 (Wed) for Tomo-no-kai members, and Dec. 12 (Sat) for everyone else. All non-general admission tickets (groups, etc.) can be purchased only at the ATM Ticket Center/Counter.

Performers:
Ryo Shiotani, Shinro Sato, Shin Koyasu, Satoshi Natori

Guest Performers from Kara-gumi:
Masakatsu Toriyama, Ken Kuboi, Yuji Ihara

"Daten no Biyaku" is the third in the series of new works released by Hirohisa Hasegawa, the previous being "Bibo no Ryusei" of 1997 and "Kakan no Tairiku" of 1998.

Comment by Hirohisa Hasegawa:

There is a tribe known as Angelus occidentalis'. The multifarious ethnic groups found in Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Christianity, Islam are all expressed by this word. Put differently, they are angels.

The word "angelus" (angel) derives from the Hebrew word, malachi, which means the messenger of Yah. Under Western tradition, the role of the angel is to translate God's word from heaven, revealing our fate.

Until the emergence of modern science and the discovery of the principles and power of nature, it was believed that angels governed and guided natural phenomena such as the wind and fire, as well as the stars. Following that line of thought, it was naturally concluded that angels made more frequent appearances during times of turmoil.

According to the Apocrypha (books not entirely accepted as part of the Bible), even winged angels fall to earth. Extrapolating from the height of angels depicted in many paintings, a person building a model of an angel would have to make the wing span some 12 meters (36 feet) wide, or more than six times the size found in paintings. No wonder they would fall, with such huge wings attached. We can also infer that most angels coursing through the sky are, in fact, not really flying, but are in the midst of a free fall. Therefore, we cannot say that there are just a few fallen angels among the many, but that the whole group of angels are in fact "fallen."

However, if that is the case, how can one explain their innocent smile?

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