No-No Boy

 
 Timescape Arts Group presents:         

No-No Boy

The play presents characters whose piercing suffering becomes eloquent…understated melancholy that is both elegant and searing ...
                    --LA Weekly

There are moments in this play that defy gravity...
             --Joe Straw, Blogspot


March 27 – April 18, 2010

Miles Memorial Playhouse
1130 Lincoln Blvd 
Santa Monica, CA 90403

Performances:  Friday and Saturdays at 8pm
                         Saturday and Sunday Matinees at 3pm
                               Added show: April 11th, 7pm


To Purchase tickets:  http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/91917 

or call: Brown Paper Tickets: 
800 838-3006



                          


1946. Seattle, Washington. A Japanese American draft resister is released from prison and returns home to find nothing is as it once was.   He struggles to piece together his war torn world. 

Ken Narasaki’s stage adaptation of John Okada’s ground breaking novel No-No Boy is scheduled for its world premiere March 27, 2010.  Originally published in 1957, the novel was re-discovered and republished in 1976 and has since become a staple of Asian American studies programs in universities across the country.  “No-no boy” refers to draft-age Japanese American men who refused to sign a loyalty oath administered in the internment camps; many of these men were ostracized after the war ended.  Set after World War II as Japanese Americans return to the West Coast, the play follows draft resister Ichiro Yamada after he is released from prison and struggles to come to terms with the consequences of his choices, while the rest of the community tries to get back on its feet after a war that has uprooted them all


The same artistic team produced Innocent When You Dream (Critic’s Choice LA Times, Pick of the Week LA Weekly), which had a successful run at Electric Lodge in Venice and was later invited to perform at the Smithsonian Institute (Washington, DC) in 2008.  for more information please visit:  www.timescapearts.com.

Funding for this production of No-No Boy was provided by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a program of the California State Library.


Timescape Arts Group is a (non-profit 501 (c) (3)).  

Contact us:  nonoboy2010@gmail.com
For more information on the playhouse:   http://www.milesplayhouse.org/

Media Sponsor:



Community Partners:
JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM
KEIRO SENIOR HEALTH CARE

TN PROJECT

   
                                    

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