ACM Theatre / December 1997

December 1997 - February 1998
For reservations and information, please call (029)225-3555.

Dec. 6 (Sat) 2:00 p.m.

CHRISTMAS SPECIAL NIGHT -- FLAMENCO MANUEL REYES DANCE COMPANY
¥3,500 General admission
¥2,500 ATM members
Sorry, the tickets have already been sold out.
Manuel Reyes, a 23-year-old flamenco dancer whose art combines passion with the freshness of youth, leads his dance company -- famous even in Spain, the home of flamenco -- in presenting the true essence of this dance form.

Dec. 13 (Sat) 7:00 p.m.

STARLIGHT JAZZ IN ACM '97: MASABUMI KIKUCHI PIANO SOLO CONCERT
¥3,500 General admission
¥3,000 ATM members
Seating on a first-come, first-served basis.
One drink included in ticket price.
One of the highlights of ATM's winter season is the lighting up of the tower dominating the plaza in the "Art Tower Mito Starlight Fantasy." The jazz piano concert by Masabumi Kikuchi marks this special night.

Dec. 26 (Fri) 7:00 p.m.

YEAR-END SPECIAL: KUMIKO TAKAHASHI CONCERT -- "FIN DE SIÈCLE RONDO (WALTZ)"
¥3,500 General admission
¥2,500 ATM members
All seats reserved.
Performers:
Kumiko Takahashi (vocal), Takahiro Miura and Masanori Atsuta (piano)
Kumiko Takahashi, who can best be described as a chanson singer, started her career by singing "Gin-Pari (Silver Paris)", and has since broadened her repertoire to encompass many styles of music, even long-forgotten Japanese popular songs. Her art thus transcends both time and space, singing of light and darkness, the sublime and the lewd, and pleasure and death – in a word, the world of the chanson. This modern songstress, accompanied by two pianos, will transform ACM Theatre into a maze of pleasure.

Jan. 4 (Sun) 2:00 p.m.

SHIN-SHUN YOSE -- RAKUGO
¥3,000 All seats reserved.
Performers:
Koyuza San-yutei / Sankyo Yanagiya / Kumosuke Gokaido / Gontaro Yanagiya
Come see these four young rakugo raconteurs liven up the new year with their banter at ACM Theatre. As they say in Japan, "Good fortune comes to the laughing home."

Jan. 23 (Fri), 24 (Sat) 7:00 p.m., Jan. 25 (Sun) 4:00 p.m.
Jan. 30 (Fri), 31 (Sat) 7:00 p.m., Feb. 1 (Sun) 4:00 p.m.

'98 NEW YEAR PERFORMANCE -- "KAKAN NO TAIRIKU"(The Corolla Continent)
¥3,000 General Admission
¥1,500 Jr. and Sr. High School Students
All seats reserved.
Writer / Director: Hirohisa Hasegawa
Performers:
Gekidan ACM, Masakatsu Toriyama, Ken Kuboi, Yuji Ihara (Gekidan Kara-gumi)

The long-awaited new play by ACM Theatre's resident playwright, Hirohisa Hasegawa. Antarctica -- the "corolla continent" -- is a mysterious white land that long was able to fend off any human contact. Buried by a 2000-meter-deep coat of ice, it spends almost half of each year in sheer darkness, untouched by the rays of the sun. Larger than either Australia or Europe, Antarctica contains at its center the southern point of the axis around which the earth rotates – that is, the South Pole. The average year-round temperature in the polar vicinity is only -55 degrees Celsius (-67 degrees Fahrenheit).
In January 1912, three expeditionary teams from different nations reached the South Pole. As if preordained, each team was made up of five men. One team won the race to the pole and sped back, while another got there only to realize in utter disappointment that they had been beaten. As for the other team, well ... come and find out what happened.

Feb. 14 (Sat) to Mar. 1 (Sun) Weekends

THEATRE FESTIVAL MITO '98
¥1,500 Seating on a first-come, first-served basis.
Tickets go on sale Jan. 11 (Sun).

Feb. 14 (Sat) 7:00 p.m., 15 (Sun) 4:00 p.m.
MODERN DANCE EXPERIMENT BY KYOKO HAGIYA "TAIL"

Feb. 21 (Sat) 7:00 p.m., 22 (Sun) 4:00 p.m.
GEKIDAN KARA-GUMI "TOMEI NINGEN" (Invisible Man)

Feb. 27 (Fri), 28 (Sat) 7:00 p.m., Mar. 1 (Sun) 4:00 p.m.
~~MITO KODOMONO GEKIDAN (Mito Children's Drama Troop) "Niju-oku Konen no Kodoku"(Two Billion Light Years Solitude)~~
The performance has been canceled owing to the troop's reasons. We thank you for your understanding of these circumstances.

One of the goals of ATM is to serve as the wellspring for dramatic activity in the city. The ACM Theatre thus has put on the Theatre Festival Mito each year for productions by groups in around Mito city. This year, however, we have decided to tear down the boundaries of genre and geography and are proud to present a modern dance company led by Ms. Kyoko Hagiya, the dramatic troupe Gekidan Kara-gumi with a play produced by Ken Kuboi (Gekidan Kara-gumi member), and the Mito Children's Drama Troop, whose growth in recent years has exceeded all expectations.

YOMU KOTOBA (PLAY TO THE GALLERY)
The ACM Theatre has started a series of reading sessions by members of the Gekidan ACM, allowing them to reach out to their audience even when no plays are currently running. Having already selected some of the plays, skits and poems to be read aloud, the troupe members are busily preparing the costumes and movements to be used during the reading sessions. The plan is to hold one script reading a month, each time at a different location around the ATM complex. The atmosphere ought to be relaxed and enjoyable.

No admission fee will be charged to the readings. If you would like to have the troupe members read your favorite play, poem or script, feel free to contact us in person at the counter of the entrance hall, or send a postcard to "Yomu Kotoba Requests," ACM Theatre, Mito Geijutsukan (Art Tower Mito), 1-6-8 Goken-cho, Mito-shi 310.
Calls can be made to (029)227-8123, and faxes should be sent to (029)227-8130.
Dial those numbers to inquire about performance times as well.

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