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YUKIO MISHIMA committed suicide the day he completed Tennin Gosui, thus blending art and life inextricably into an eloquent statement of emptiness and silence. Now translated into English by Edward Seidensticker, The Decay of the Angel is the last volume of the tetralogy The Sea of Fertility, which Mishima regarded as his greatest work. The four-part narrative follows the experiences and reflections of Honda Shigekuni, from his days as a student in Part One to his near senility in Part Four...
...complete cast is as follows: Tennin girl, Miss Madeline Brine '22 Hakuryo, M. P. Lichauco '23 A fisherman, Henderson Matthews...
...fantasy "Hagoromo", Miss Madeline Brine, as the Tennin girl, will portray the Japanese nymph whose feathery cloak, capable of giving its owner the power to fly through the wind and clouds, is stolen by the fisherman, played by Henderson Matthews. She is unable to return to her native haunts in Tryiyama without it, and finally retrieves if from the fisherman by teaching him the quaint dance of the Tennins...
...pleasing fairy tale is the substance of the first play, a Japanese "Noh" product, "Hagoromo". Leonard Ware '21 will take the part of, "Hakuryo", a fisherman, who finds a feathery Tennin cloak, capable of giving its owner the power to fly through the wind and clouds. The graceful nymph, "Tennin", played by Miss Madeline Brine '22 of Radcliffe, who cannot return to her native haunts in Tryiyama without her cloak, retrieves it from the fisherman only after she promised to teach him the quaint dance of the Japanese Tennis...
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