Play Reading: Remembering the Hiroshima Bombing: "The Face Of Jizo" a Young Girl's Survivor Story
$5.00 - 20.00 Suggested donation, everyone welcome, no one turned away
Description:
Youth Play Reading: "The Face Of Jizo" a young girl's true story about surviving the Hiroshima bombing.
"The Face Of Jizo", a play written by Hisashi Inoue and translated from the Japanese by Roger Pulvers, is a story of a survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945 as she struggles with her past, present and future. The main character, Mitsue, is tormented by her memories of the bombing and her guilt of surviving the atomic fire while her father perished. In the play, Mitsue finds that the family's garden statue of Jizo had half of its face melted off from the atomic blast, and she relates the visage to her father's inexplicable reappearance as a ghost. A jizo is the guardian deity and savior of children, as well as the protector of travelers.
There are roadside statues of Jizo throughout Japan, and in 2005 over 200,000 depictions of Jizos were sent to Japan for the commemoration of the bombings, including Jizos sent from the Rogue Valley. The play reading will be directed by Annette Lewis, a member of the Rogue Valley Peace Choir who traveled to Hiroshima and sang at the Hiroshima Peace Park on August 6, 2006.
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