Paper Lanterns, Paper Cranes
By Brian Kral
Paper Lanterns, Paper Cranes is a play that needs 13 or more performers (6 women, 4 men). Licensed by Dramatic Publishing.
- Type
- play
- Cast size
- 13 or more performers
- Roles
- 6 women, 4 men
- Cast notes
- 13 to 16 (4 to 6m., 6 to 9w., with roles for children and adults). Some doubling is possible.
- Recommended level
- High school
- Dance
- No dance
- Genre
- historical
- Licensor
- Dramatic Publishing
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Synopsis
This powerful drama illustrates the impact of war—and the nightmare of nuclear fallout—as experienced by some of World War II's most innocent victims: the children of Japan. Kyushu, a Japanese "street orphan," is admitted into a Hiroshima hospital in the mid-1950s. When it is discovered that she's losing her eyesight, the spectre is raised whether she is also a victim of "A-bomb illness." Despite her denial that she was in Hiroshima during the bomb blast, she is visited by a ghastly memory of th
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