Contemporary Japanese Theatre: Dramatic Reading Series

A Crow's Theatre Production
Presented by The Japan Foundation

In the garden, two suns

A play by Hisashi Inoue in English Translation
Adapted by Marjorie Chan and Damien Atkins
after the literal translation by Roger Pulvers

Director: Leah Cherniak
Design: David Skelton

In the Garden, Two Suns (English language title) was premiered in 1994 in Tokyo. This acclaimed, touching and at times humourous play has been adapted by the skillful hands of Canadian playwrights Damien Atkins and Marjorie Chan.

When is being alive not the same as really living? A survivor of Hiroshima's atomic blast struggles to come to life again in a domestic story of a young woman and her dead father, a ghost who shares her small apartment. A play about living after surviving and the rediscovery of the human things that make a heart do more than beat.

"I believe those two atomic bombs were dropped not only on the Japanese, but on all humankind. The people exposed to those bombs, scorched as they were with the fire of hell, represent all people around the world in the second half of the 20th century."
Hisashi Inoue from the preface of the play

Cast
Mitsue, a young librarian: Marjorie Chan
Her father, Takezo: Martin Julien

January 14 (Fri.), 15 (Sat.) and 17 (Mon.), 2005
Curtain time: 8:00 P.M.
The Japan Foundation, Toronto
131 Bloor Street West
The second floor of the Colonnade building

Admission Free
Reservation required - Limited Seating
taoyagi@jftor.org, 416.966.1600 x.229
Please specify the spelling of your first and last name and which of the three dates you would like to attend.