Paper Lanterns, Paper Cranes
- Full Length Play, Drama, 1950s
- 6M, 9F
- ISBN: PD8
This powerful drama illustrates the impact of war -- and the nightmare of nuclear fallout -- as experienced by some of World War II's most innocent victims: the children of Japan.
Description
- Full Length Play
- Drama
- 100 minutes
- Time Period: 1950s
- Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult, Appropriate for all audiences, Young Audiences
- Performance Group:
- Community Theatre
- Accolades:
- Winner! AATE Distinguished Play Award
Winner! IUPUI/IRT Bonderman Award
Kyushu, a Japanese street orphan, is admitted into a Hiroshima hospital in the mid-1950s. When it is discovered that she's losing her eyesight, the spectre is raised whether she is also a victim of A-bomb illness. Despite her denial that she was in Hiroshima during the bomb blast, she is visited by a ghastly memory of the burned out city, the Cockroach Woman, and she resists all attempts by a Japanese physician and an American psychologist to help her.
She falls more deeply into depression and hopelessness -- until her chance meeting and eventual friendship with a young A-bomb patient named Sadako gives Kyushu the strength and desire to recover.
Characters
- Casting: 6M, 9F
- Casting Attributes: Reduced casting (Doubling Possible), Roles for Children, Multicultural casting
- Casting Notes: Some doubling is possible.
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This powerful drama illustrates the impact of wareand the nightmare of nuclear fallouteas experienced by some of World War II's most innocent victims: the children of Japan. Kyushu, a Japanese street orphan, is admitted into a Hiroshima hospital in the mid-1950s. When it is discovered that she's losing her eyesight, the spectre is raised whether she is also a victim of A-bomb illness. Despite her denial that she was in Hiroshima during the bomb blast, she is visited by a ghastly memory of the burned out city, the Cockroach Woman, and she resists all attempts by a Japanese physician and an American psychologist to help her. She falls more deeply into depression and hopelessnesseuntil her chance meeting and eventual friendship with a young A-bomb patient named Sadako gives Kyushu the strength and desire to recover. Paper Lanterns, Paper Cranes is a winner of the IUPUI National Playwriting Competition. Production notes are available in the script containing details on setting and characterization. Multicultural cast. Approximate running time: 1 hour, 40 minutes, with intermission. |
$19.95 |
