Review: TAKARAZUKA! by Loren Noveck
What seems at first to be a quirky piece of anthropological inquiry--a trip behind the scenes of a Japanese theatrical subculture unfamiliar to American audiences--slowly reveals itself to be something more complex, something much darker, stranger, and richer. Susan Soon He Stanton's Takarazuka!!! constantly holds mirrors up to itself; it's filled with doubled and halved and twinned identities, shadow--even ghost--se…