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June 27, 2005
Hiroshima
So we started working on A Thousand Cranes today, and I want to state right here, right now, for the record, that I don't know how I'm going to survive this. Because it is unspeakably horrifying. Why and how a group of human beings decided to put another group of human beings through such an experience is completely beyond my comprehension. Completely.
I don't understand hatred and I don't understand war and I don't understand how that sort of decision could ever be justifiable.
The play itself is a good play, well crafted and tight. But I cried three times this morning during rehearsal. Once for each time we read through the play and once when the director read the picture book Sadako to us. Maybe by the time we open I will be so numb to its truths that I can speak my final lines without weeping. But I don't see how.
Posted by sally at June 27, 2005 10:46 PM
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