One-woman play by Ako, from Kyoko Hayashi’s Hibakusha memoir, in English with Japanese subtitles.
From Trinity to Trinity is a solo play adapted from Kyoko Hayashi’s autobiographical account of her 1999 pilgrimage to Trinity Site in New Mexico, where the first atomic bomb was tested. As a fourteen-year-old schoolgirl working at the Mitsubishi Munitions Factory in Nagasaki, Hayashi survived the August 9, 1945 blast and endured the effects of radiation sickness for decades.
The work is translated into English by Eiko Otake, of the performance duo Eiko & Koma, and performed by New York–based actress Ako, whose stage and screen credits include Shogun, God Said This, and Snow Falling on Cedars. Ako is also the founder of Amaterasu Za, a theater company in New York City dedicated to Japanese cultural performance.
Presented at HERE Arts Center during the 80th anniversary year of the 1945 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the play revisits Hayashi’s testimony of survival and remembrance.
