Translation: Deja Vu
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masahiAnd lo, I bring the next part of the Deja Vu translation. I did intend to do it in chaptered blocks, but since each block is over 20+ pages, you wouldn't see this one for many months. So, instead, I'm going to post when I successfully translate every few pages. Mostly, because I want to share the glee. (And regarding the sporadic numbering, it's because any page which isn't translated it a picture. There are many, many pictures. MANY)
Deja Vu - Page 25 & 26
In Dreams
When people sleep, we say that we dream. There, your dreams become reality.
I wished for those dreams to come true.
This is my dream. I am on-stage playing the role of Rhett Butler. In the case of Butler, from the Masterpiece 'Gone with the Wind', this was my favourite role, the way Clark Gable played it. It was converted for the stage in Takarazuka, and was also the first performance I remember seeing on the Takarazuka stage.*
Even as time passes for people, their dreams are still somewhere in their heart and spirit. But, when time is passing, can you still remember your dream as clearly when you have spent more than twelve years playing male roles? It is strange to look back at your old dreams, which I only remembered one day, because the Theatre Company announced we would be performing 'Gone With the Wind' again, in which I would serve as the supporting part.
I didn't remember the dream I once had, as I went through rehearsals, until the day of the dress rehearsals, when I wore my costume and make up and saw my reflection in the mirror, and then I remembered it all at once. I looked exactly like I had in my dream...
As if by chance, it was coming true, an image that I had seen somewhere before (I think it was a case of deja vu). It is powerful, a powerful dream. It seems the case that this was a prophetic dream.
Even though it was an old dream, it was wonderful to have it come true. It was the dream that led me to Takarazuka. During the time of the entrance exam, before we knew whether we had passed or failed, the shape of my dream was there, held in my mind and heart.
Even now, I think about it ever night before I go to bed: I wonder what dream I will have tonight.
* Mariko first saw Gone With the Wind in the 1978 run with Ootori Ran and idolised her tremendously. This was the year she must have auditioned for TMS as well.
When she was later performing in Cinderella, a show debuted in Japan by Tsure, according to a cast blog, Mariko was like a nervous schoolgirl the night Tsure was in the audience.
Deja Vu - Page 25 & 26
In Dreams
When people sleep, we say that we dream. There, your dreams become reality.
I wished for those dreams to come true.
This is my dream. I am on-stage playing the role of Rhett Butler. In the case of Butler, from the Masterpiece 'Gone with the Wind', this was my favourite role, the way Clark Gable played it. It was converted for the stage in Takarazuka, and was also the first performance I remember seeing on the Takarazuka stage.*
Even as time passes for people, their dreams are still somewhere in their heart and spirit. But, when time is passing, can you still remember your dream as clearly when you have spent more than twelve years playing male roles? It is strange to look back at your old dreams, which I only remembered one day, because the Theatre Company announced we would be performing 'Gone With the Wind' again, in which I would serve as the supporting part.
I didn't remember the dream I once had, as I went through rehearsals, until the day of the dress rehearsals, when I wore my costume and make up and saw my reflection in the mirror, and then I remembered it all at once. I looked exactly like I had in my dream...
As if by chance, it was coming true, an image that I had seen somewhere before (I think it was a case of deja vu). It is powerful, a powerful dream. It seems the case that this was a prophetic dream.
Even though it was an old dream, it was wonderful to have it come true. It was the dream that led me to Takarazuka. During the time of the entrance exam, before we knew whether we had passed or failed, the shape of my dream was there, held in my mind and heart.
Even now, I think about it ever night before I go to bed: I wonder what dream I will have tonight.
* Mariko first saw Gone With the Wind in the 1978 run with Ootori Ran and idolised her tremendously. This was the year she must have auditioned for TMS as well.
When she was later performing in Cinderella, a show debuted in Japan by Tsure, according to a cast blog, Mariko was like a nervous schoolgirl the night Tsure was in the audience.
