Pinocchio Contemporary Dance: Dance Planet No.7 THE PIT <STAFF> Choreographed and staged by : Shinji Nakamura Artistic Director : Asami Maki Production Director : Yoko Miki Libretto by : Asako Minamitani Scenery : Fukuro Ishikawa Costume Designer : Takayuki Suzuki Lighting Designer : Shinya Isono Sound Designer : Yasuo Kawata Stage Manager : Yumiko Moriwaki     Presented by : New National Theatre, Tokyo Sponsored by : Kirin Brewery Co., Ltd. <CAST> Mako Kawano Sachi Araki Tomo Iwashiro Eiji Kobayashi Masako Fujita Tokihiko Sakamoto Naoko Ishikawa Yuuko Kanzaki Yuu Shizawa Mari Honda Miki Wakamatsu Tomoji Ishizuka Hiroyuki Kurihara Junko Sekiguchi <PERFORMANCES> September, 2000 Friday 22 Saturday 23 Sunday 24 3:00pm     X 7:00pm X X   The theatre opens 45 minutes before the curtain rises. <ADVANCE TICKETS> Available from Wednesday 26 July, 2000 at 10:00am. To order tickets, please call +81-3-5352-9999 (10:00am-6:00pm) <TICKET PRICES> Seat A: ¥5,250 Seat B: ¥3,150 Seat Z(¥1,500) is sold only on the performance day at the Box Office and a part of Ticket Pia Offices. When the journey of a soul ends, the soul transmigrates and is reunited with this world, and then a fantastic story begins. Geppetto, who has had his wish realized because of the purity of his mind, is reborn as a doctor for a medical institution and meets a mysterious patient; a reincarnation of Pinocchio. Although the patient is a moral being, he always looks up at the stars in the sky, which puzzles the doctor. Agonized between those who manage and those who are managed, the doctor starts to think about what true human nature is and finds there are various fetters that surround him. When he shaves wood again after experiencing the birth of life, truth, restraints, and sufferings, the closing part of the story turns into a ballad for all the people living today. In his new work "Pinocchio", Shinji Nakamura asks questions whether Pinocchio was happy when he was born as a human child and what true human nature is.