In the garden, two suns

Contemporary Japanese Theatre: Dramatic Reading Series

A Crow's Theatre Production
Presented by The Japan Foundation

A play by Hisashi Inoue in English Translation
Original translation by Roger Pulvers
Adapted by Marjorie Chan with Damien Atkins
Directed by Jim Millan

Cast
Mitsue, a young librarian: Marjorie Chan
Her father, Takezo: Paul Lee

August 6 (Sat.), and 8 (Mon.), 9 (Tue.), 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.

In the garden, two suns premiered in 1994 in Tokyo. Since then it has been produced countless times in Japan and been made into a major motion picture. This acclaimed, touching and at times humourous play has been adapted by the skillful hands of Canadian playwrights Damien Atkins and Marjorie Chan and appeared in Toronto (Jan. 2005) and Ottawa (June 2005) with great excitement and incredible audience response.

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 makes 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

"To die in Hiroshima was the natural thing to do. To survive here is unnatural."
from scene 3