IN THE GARDEN, TWO SUNS

Crow's Theatre and the Japan Foundation cordially invite you to attend a
free staged reading of

IN THE GARDEN, TWO SUNS
adapted by Governor General's Award Nominee Marjorie Chan with Damien Atkins

READING DATES
Thursday November 3rd
University of Toronto 6:30pm
Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse
Address: 79A St. George St.
Directions: East side of St. George St. South of Harbord, theatre is on
second floor

Tuesday November 8th
7pm, Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre
Address: 6 Garamond Court, Toronto, ON M3C 1Z5
Directions by Bus: Take the #100 (Flemington) bus
from Eglinton or Broadview subway station

Wednesday November 9th
11:30 am, York University
Burton Auditorium
4700 Keele Street, Toronto

Part of the 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
Directed by Jim Millan, Assistant Directed by Tanya Smith
Cast:
Mitsue, a young librarian: Marjorie Chan
Her father, Takezo: Paul Lee

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 which was widely released
in Japan and had a screening at the Japan Foundatin in Toronto. 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? Set 3years after the drop
of the Atomic in a humble Hiroshima apartment, young Mitsue, a survivor of
the atomic blast struggles to come to life again in a domestic story of a
young librarian and her 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.