Keen Teens

May 9, 10 & 11

Off-Broadway theatre company Keen Company,
in a partnership with Playscripts, Inc.
invites you to join its free theatre program for students,
KEEN TEENS.

http://www.keencompany.org/teens.html


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Dawn's Light

photo by Lia Chang

Thursday, May 1, 7pm

co-presented with the Lark Play Development Center and Epic Theatre Ensemble

DAWN'S LIGHT: THE JOURNEY OF GORDON HIRABAYASHI by Jeanne Sakata

Directed by Lisa Rothe
Featuring Thom Sesma

The Lark Studio, 939 8th Avenue

DAWN'S LIGHT is a one-person show inspired by the true story of Gordon Hirabayashi, a 24-year-old Japanese American Quaker college student, who, during World War II in 1942, openly defied and legally challenged governmental orders forcing over 100,000 people of Japanese ancestry into desolate concentration camps without due process of the law. Throughout this shocking upheaval, his subsequent imprisonment and Supreme Court trial, Gordon struggles to arrive at a deeper understanding of his own experiences, his community's sufferings, and America's triumphs and failures.

"DAWN'S LIGHT: THE JOURNEY OF GORDON HIRABAYASHI" was originally commissioned by Center Theatre Group's Asian Theatre Workshop in 2003."