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Voice & Vision and Crossing Jamaica Avenue presents
I Have Been To Hiroshima Mon Amour
Friday, May 08, 2009 through Saturday, May 30, 2009
A young Japanese love is shattered by war. Fourteen years later, a passionate French/Japanese affair is haunted by a ghost of Hiroshima. Lust and longing bind strangers in this city of memories. A world-premiere by Chiori Miyagawa;directed by Jean Wagner.
Length: 1 hr 20 mins
Intermission: None
Seating: General Admission
You choose your seats when you get to the theater.
I HAVE BEEN TO HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR revolves around two love stories: one, played out in memories, involves a Japanese man, who returns to Hiroshima after fighting in WWII, and a Japanese woman who dies instantly at the moment of detonation of the atomic bomb on August 6, 1945. The other, involving the same man and a French actress, occurs in 1959 in "restored" Hiroshima. The Japanese woman -- or her ghost -- haunts the second love story. Ms. Miyagawa's play, a singular tragedy of atomic war told through personal loss, is a poetic response to the 1959 French film "Hiroshima Mon Amour," and asks, "Who is entitled to memory?"
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