Monday Night Reading Series: Voices From Hiroshima May 25, 2009

Little-known plays about the bombings by Japanese writers set in the late 1940s, are performed together for the first time in English. On 5/11 is 'The Face of Jizo by Hishashi Inoue' (1944), translated by Roger Pulvers; 5/18 features 'The Elephant' by Minor Betsuyaku (1962), translated by Roger Pulvers and on 5/26 is 'The Head of Mary' by Chikao Tanaka (1959), translated by David G. Goodman.These plays have never been presented together in English.