"Summer of Children" 1945 Hiroshima Nagasaki
*Information at the time of adoption.
- Name of the organization or individual
- Japan Center of the International Theater Association
- subsidy category
- Creation Grant
- Grant Type
- single year
FY24 Creation Grant
Business Overview
Composition and direction: KIMURA Koichi Apparatus: ISHII Kouji (Bungaku-za) Lighting: FURUMIYA Toshiaki (stage and lighting staff) Effects: FUKAGAWA Sadatsugu (Tokyo Theater and Sound Research Institute) Stage director: ASANUMA Kazuhiko Production: WATANABE Emi (Jinjinkai Shinsha) Cast: KATO Kazuko, FURUMURA Hiro, TAKAHASHI Reie, TOKOSHIMA Yoshiko, NISHIYAMA Mizuki, HARA Hideko (in alphabetical order) Tanka and Haiku Readings ARAKI Mayumi, junior high and high school students in Setagaya Ward Voice cast KITAMURA Kazuo A 1 1 ⁄ 2-hour play in which six actresses and six local participants read a script composed based on a vast amount of primary sources, including the notes and poems left by children who were exposed to the atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, their mothers who were by their side, and those who were unable to be by their mothers. Part 1 is Hiroshima, Part 2 is Nagasaki, and Part 3 is Aftermath. It concludes with the powerful words of the girls, who, despite their painful experiences, look to the future and say, "Let's live, let's live."
- Period of Activity / Project
- Saturday, August 18, 2012 - Sunday, August 19
- Venues
- Setagaya Public Theater (Setagaya Ward, Tokyo)
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Profile
[Japan Center of the International Theater Association]
In May 1951, the Japan Center was established. Approved officially at the Oslo World Congress in June. The chairperson is Seiichiro TAKAHASHI.
In December 1970, Shuji HOJO became the chairperson and attempted financial reconstruction.
In April 1985, it became independent from the Japan Theater Association. Naoya Uchimura became chairperson.
In June 1990, it was approved as an incorporated association by the Agency for Cultural Affairs and started as a corporation. The chairperson at that time was Asakazu SAKAMOTO.
In June 1991, Turkey was elected as a member of the Council at the 24 General Assembly, and was reelected as a member at the 1993 General Assembly of Germany, 7 General Assembly of Venezuela, 9 General Assembly of Korea, 12 General Assembly of France, 14 General Assembly of Greece, 16 General Assembly of Mexico, 18 General Assembly of the Philippines, 20 General Assembly of Spain, and 23 General Assembly of China. He became the current chairperson in 2008.