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TITLES (to try in 11/29 rehearsal)

PROLOGUE //All enter// “Kyogen: A brief comic interlude played before a Noh drama.” //Chorus lifts lights//

SCENE ONE //Final clap of line dance// “Jo: The beginning that slowly builds toward the action.” //5/4 Lindsay speaks//

SCENE THREE //Trevor sits// “Shite Entrance: The slow and spectacular reveal of the play’s main actor.” //Mariah begins//

SCENE FOUR //Shopping cart “ba-dum” off the edge// “Ha: An urgent transition to the climax” //Sound of branch beginning//

SCENE FIVE //Jessie puts on her shoes// “Kyu: The brief and final action that leaves no room for any other resolution.” //“Where are you? Excuse me is anyone around?”//

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Here's the Prologue / Kyogen scene:

All I Want For Christmas Is You lyrics by Mariah Carey

I don't want a lot for Christmas There's just one thing I need I don't care about the presents Underneath the Christmas tree I just want you for my own More than you could ever know Make my wish come true All I want for Christmas is... You

I don't want a lot for Christmas There's just one thing I need I don't care about the presents Underneath the Christmas tree I don't need to hang my stocking There upon the fireplace Santa Claus won't make me happy With a toy on Christmas day I just want you for my own More than you could ever know Make my wish come true All I want for Christmas is you You baby

I won't ask for much this Christmas I don't even wish for snow I'm just gonna keep on waiting Underneath the mistletoe I won't make a list and send it To the North Pole for Saint Nick I won't even stay awake to Hear those magic reindeers click 'Cause I just want you here tonight Holding on to me so tight What more can I do Baby all I want for Christmas is you Ooh baby All the lights are shining So brightly everywhere And the sound of children's Laughter fills the air And everyone is singing I hear those sleigh bells ringing Santa won't you bring me the one I really need Won't you please bring my baby to me...

Oh I don't want a lot for Christmas This is all I'm asking for I just want to see my baby Standing right outside my door Oh I just want you for my own More than you could ever know Make my wish come true Baby all I want for Christmas is... You

All I want for Christmas is you... baby

This is our most current script:

SONGS BEING USED AS TEXT: Baby I'm Buring All I Want For Christmas is You The Pain of Loving You

Here is an alternative translation that I'm interested in using some of. The language is more blunt. Characters sound less sophisticated. http://www.the-noh.com/en/plays/data/program_034.html

Donald Keene translation:

Lady Han Poem References Direct References p.135 Hanago: “On Kasuga Moor Sparse is the grass that grows, breaking through the snow—As rare as our meetings, my love.” -A poem by Mibu no Tadamine, no. 478 in Kokinshu. p.136 Hanago: “I of weary life; Save for the dismal tidings Brought by the autumn wind, No message ever comes for me.” -From a poem by Hafuri no Narikage, no. 1244 in the Shingoshuishu. There is a pun on aki, which can mean both “autumn” and “weary.” p.136 Hanago: “At the sunset hour The clouds are massed like banners, And my thoughts fly beyond.” -Quoted with slight variation from an anonymous poem, no. 484 in the Kokinshu. p.136 Hanago/Chorus: “They say I’m in love, The rumor is already in circulation, (Chorus) Yet when I began to love, There was not a soul who knew.” -A poem by Mibu no Tadamine, no. 621 in the Shuishu. p.136 Hanago: “At Mitarishi Brook I’ll love no more.” -A reference to the anonymous poem, no. 501 in the Kokinshu. Mitarashi Brook flows before the Kami-gono Shrine in Kyoto, and was the site of ritual lustration and the making of vows. p.137 Hanago: “Once a man’s heart has grown Attuned to constancy, Attuned to constancy, He need pray no more: The gods will protect him.” -A poem traditionally attributed to Sugawara no Michizane.

p.138 Hanago: “In Lady Han’s chamber The bleak color of an autumn fan; On the terrace of the King of C’u The cold sounds of a lute played at night.” -From the poem by Songyo quoted no. 380 in the Wakan Roei Shu. p.138 Chorus: “Should the moon be hidden By the many-folded hills, I would hold up my fan To symbolize the moon.” -Quoted from the poem by Chisa Daishi, no. 587 in the Wakan Roei Shu. The meaning is that if the moon of truth is hidden by the mountains of delusion, the speaker will use a round fan as an expedient in representing the moon. p.141 Hanago: “This keepsake Now is my enemy: Without it, There might be a chance to forget.” -This anonymous poem, no. 746 in the Kokinshu, is quoted in various other plays, including Matsukaze. Indirect References p.138 Chorus: “A fan at the end of summer Or the white dews of autumn—Which will be first to fall?” -From the poem by Mibu no Tadamine, no. 283 in the Shinkokinshu. p.138 Chorus: “The lonely tolling bell at dead of night Would echo on Cockcrow Hill, Proclaiming the coming of the dawn And urging us to say goodbye.” -Several hills in China were called “cockcrows.” This reference is to a poem by Ki no Tadana in the Honcho Monzui. p.139 Hanago: “The jade-green curtain, the crimson walls, The bed with twin pillows where we lay Under familiar coverlets the whole night through, Dreaming we would rest in one grave—Everything has vanished without a trace.” -Apparently an allusion to a poem by Oe no Mochitoki, no. 700 in the Wakan Roei Shu, about Wang Chao-Chin, the Chinese beauty described in the play Shokun. The scene is Chinese in feeling, especially in the colors mentioned, which would hardly describe a Japanese room. p.139 Hanago “It takes for a dewdrop to dry On a spray of forget-me-not.” -The Japanese word for forget-me-not translates to “plant for all time.” p.140 Hanago: “’My fan is called “Round Snow.’ Its name alone sends chills through me.” -refers to poem by Oe no Masahira, Wakan Roei Shu, which refers to Lady Han’s fan as “round snow.”

p.140 Hanago: “The moon that I hide and carry In the breast of my robe,” -From a poem by Po Chu-I, no. 199 in the Wakan Roei Shu p.140 Chorus: “The autumn winds blow, but the reeds Never rustle with news of him.” -Reference to poem no. 1212 in the Shinkokokinshu by the Daughter of the Priest Ampo: If this were an ordinary autumn wind at least it should make a noise of rustling the reed-leaves. There is the usual pun on aki, meaning both “autumn” and “weary,” and the poem, like the passage in the play, reproaches a man for not getting in touch with the speaker. p.142 Hanago: “Then you must be the man Who went to the end of the Azuma road When the waves washed over Pine Hill And never returned.” -A reference to the anonymous poem, no. 1093 in the Kokinshu: “If I leave you and my heart strays, waves will wash over Pine Hill.” Because the speaker is sure that waves will never wash over the hill, the poem is an assurance that he will never be untrue. It became a proverbial expression of constancy.

Script References Original) p.136 Hanago: “The deities of Ashigara, Hakone, and Tamatsushima …” -The deities (Shinto) are the incarnations of Buddhist divinities. These gods were all associated with preserving the ties between men and women. Original) p.136 Hanago: “Twice I bow in supplication.” -A formula of invocation. Original) p.137 Hanago: “A jewel is stiched in our robes…” -A reference to a story in the Lotus Sultra… “It is as if there is a man who goes to his friend’s house, becomes a drunk with wine and fall asleep. Just then the friend must go to attend to his official duties. He sews a priceless jewel into the sleeping man’s clothes as a present, then leaves. But the man is lying there drunk, and does not realize what his friend has done…” Original) p.138 Hanago: “If blossoms scatter on my kerchief.” -In Japanese, the phrase “on my kerchief” can also be interpreted as meaning “on my lute” or “on the brocade [class of richly-decorative fabrics].” Original) p.138 Chorus: “I will gather snow and mourn the spring.” -The fallen blossoms are equated with snow and give the paradox of gathering snow, a thing belonging to winter, and regretting the passage of spring. Original) p.141 Hanago: “He fancied me, he said, but he lied.” -Pun on “fan” and “fancied” Original) p.141 Chorus: “But if, like the azaleas hidden In the silent wood of Iwade, You do not speak…” -Iwade is a pun on the Japanese word iwade, which means “not speaking.”