The French Revolution but make it EXTRA: all-female cast, impossible glamour, and tragic romance that'll wreck you.
Takarazuka Flower Troupe 2014 Chunichi Theater production. In 1770, Princess Marie-Antoinette of the House of Hapsburg, youngest daughter of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, marries at the age of fourteen, Prince Louis (future Louis XVI) of the House of Bourbon, eldest grandson of King Louis XV of France. In anxiety over some childishness still lingering in Marie-Antoinette, Empress Maria Theresa sends over to France her confidant, Count of Mercy-Argenteau, on the mission to tutor Marie-Antoinette to grow up to be a beloved queen of the French people.
Production
Takarazuka's signature 'oogiri'—pure visual excess that somehow works.
Acting
Rio Asumi's Fersen: smoldering restraint in a troupe built for melodrama.
Costume
Robe à la française with Takarazuka sparkle—historical drag perfection.
Director
Masasumi Tani
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Takarazuka's otokoyaku (male-role actresses) originated in 1914 as 'wholesome' alternatives to mixed-gender theatre, creating a century of queer female fandom.
Rio Asumi retired from Takarazuka in 2019; this Fersen became legendary for its restrained eroticism in a troupe famous for melodramatic excess.
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