I Have Been to Hiroshima Mon Amour May 17, 2009

'I Have Been to Hiroshima Mon Amour' revolves around two love stories. One, played out in memories, involves a Japanese man who returns to Hiroshima after fighting in WWII, and a Japanese woman who dies instantly at the moment of detonation of the atomic bomb on August 6, 1945. The other, involving the same man and a French actress, occurs in 1959 in "restored" Hiroshima. The Japanese woman - or her ghost - haunts the second love story. Ms. Miyagawa's play, a singular tragedy of atomic war told through personal loss, is a poetic response to the 1959 French film 'Hiroshima Mon Amour, and asks, "Who is entitled to memory?"