At the Arts Club, Forgiveness is transformed into a Second World War play that expands the Canadian narrative – but is missing its memoirist
City:In his 2014 Canada Reads-winning book,, Mark Sakamoto wrote about two of his grandparents – and what he learned from their resilience during the Second World War.
The staging by director Stafford Arima slips back and forth between their worlds and perspectives with the help of giant– Japanese sliding doors – designed by Pam Johnson and frequently covered with contextualizing projections of historical pictures and animations. As war breaks out again in Europe in 1939, Mitsue is considering marriage proposals and facing career options limited by a combination of gender and race discrimination; Ralph, on the other hand, fudges his birthday and enlists as soon as possible, eager to escape his circumstances by fighting Germans – he expects – with the Royals Rifles of Canada.
On the other side of the world, Ralph experiences a cavalcade of horrors as a prisoner of war – witnessing the deaths of friends from torture, disease, accidents and the whims of his captors.
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