Snow Troupe Performance Interview: Rose of Versailles – Giroudelle Side Story/MIROIRS (National Tour)

This interview featuring statements from the directors and stars of the 2008 national tour of Rose of Versailles – Giroudelle Side Story/MIROIRS was published in the May 2008 issue of Kageki.

Unlike other cast/director interviews which take the form of roundtable talks, some small theatre shows will instead have the directors and the main stars give separate statements about the show and their roles.

Participants in this feature were: Ueda Shinji (writer/director of Giroudelle Side Story), Nakamura Satoru (director of MIROIRS), Mizu Natsuki, and Shirahane Yuri.

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ESPECIAL TIME: As you like it – Otozuki Kei and Shirahane Yuri

ESPECIAL TIME was a long-running invitation talk feature in GRAPH, where one sienne is given the opportunity to invite someone else.

Otozuki Kei’s feature, where she invited Shirahane Yuri, was the very first iteration, published in the February 2008 issue. (There were many other invitation talk features in the past, but usually operated on a ‘relay’ system rather than having both parties be new every issue.)

Some of the outtake photos from the back of the magazine are also included.

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Dress Press – Shirahane Yuri, Elisabeth

Dress Press was one of the many costume-analysis features that have been published in GRAPH over the years, this one focusing on musumeyaku gowns specifically. In this edition, featured in the August 2007 issue, Shirahane Yuri talks about two of the costumes she wears in her role of Elisabeth.

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