>>6029853So here's the thing about the school play: it was The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter. It's about an alien princess who gets courted by some japanese noble dudes and the Emperor and she says No to all of them, and then she says "My planet needs me" (Emperor died when she went to her home planet).
The role of Kaguya is not a human role, she is a pretty face that men will go to the ends of the Earth to win. She doesn't do anything that shows empathy to the other characters besides formality, she just looks to the moon and wants to go to the moon. There is one moment where she is having a sad goodbye, but then Buddha gives her a magic cloak and erases all her emotions. Everyone else around her is pretty sad, but she's an alien and above that.
The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter is a play where the Onus to Act is on Everyone but Kaguya, and this is Cocoa's favorite role she's done, a role where she didn't have to do much!
I hope La Maupin has some singing in it, some youtube clips of a professional opera singer would be Something to distract from Cocoa's Nothing.
