I Have Been to Hiroshima Mon Amour
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened May 14, 2009
Closed May 30, 2009
Opened May 14, 2009
Closed May 30, 2009
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Chiori Miyagawa's 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?"
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Fifty years ago, a film called Hiroshima Mon Amour caused a sensation at the Cannes Film Festival and helped usher in the French New Wave with its passionate story of first love, memory, and survival during and after World War II. Playwright Chiori Miyagawa seeks to both burrow inside this legendary, controversial film and critique it with her new 90-minute piece, I Have Been to Hiroshima Mon Amour, now at the Ohio Theater. Unfortunately the result doesn't satisfy as a whole, as its powerful and provocative ideas are often undercut by its underwhelming performances.
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