America Dreaming and Other Plays

America Dreaming and Other Plays

by Chiori Miyagawa

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Jamaica Avenue follows three intertwining lives: a man who is an addict, a spirit who comes back as a woman, and a woman who becomes a ghost. Yesterday's Window is a play about a woman and her imaginary daughter, and the outside world that intrudes on their relationship. Antigone's Red is set in a relocation camp in the middle of a desert for Japanese citizens during World War II. Antigone's lover is faced with making a decision on loyalty questions that the government imposes on imprisoned Japanese Americans. I Have Been to Hiroshima Mon Amour takes place in "reconstructed" Hiroshima in 1959. A French actress and a Japanese architect have a passionate one-night affair, which conjures memories of their respective first loves, both of whom died during WWII. In America Dreaming, Yuki time-travels through a fabricated history of the U.S., which is collectively created by a nation that does not want to remember its mistakes.

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    Chiori Miyagawa's plays frequently explore the complex interplay between memory, history, and identity. How do different plays in this collection (e.g., America Dreaming, I Have Been to Hiroshima Mon Amour, Antigone's Red) illuminate the ways individuals and nations grapple with their pasts?

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    In Jamaica Avenue, characters transform from addict to spirit, woman to ghost. What does this fluid nature of identity suggest about the boundaries between life, death, and different states of being? Can you recall moments in your own life where you felt a significant personal transformation?

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    Both Yesterday's Window and Antigone's Red feature an "outside world" intruding upon intimate or isolated spaces. How does this intrusion manifest in each play, and what are the consequences for the characters and their relationships?

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