Paper Lanterns, Paper Cranes
Location
Middleton Theatre
About
Camberwell Grammarians Theatre Company
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. 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.
The play runs for approx. 1 hour and 30 minutes, plus a 20 minute interval.
This play contains strobe lighting, mature content and some distressing themes.
The play runs for approx. 1 hour and 30 minutes, plus a 20 minute interval.
This play contains strobe lighting, mature content and some distressing themes.