A dramatic reading of Momoko Iko's

two-act play, GOLD WATCH

Sunday, February 19

1:00 - 3:00p.m.

Theater Off Jackson

409 Seventh Ave S.

(Below the Wing Luke Asian Museum)

Free to public and family friendly

GOLD WATCH is set in Wapato, WA between Labor Day 1941 and June of 1942. The play dramatizes the consequences of Pearl Harbor for the Japanese Americans in this rural, farm community and how they respond to the internment orders.

First performed in Seattle in 1977, the play this year features four members of the "original" Seattle cast: Bea Kiyohara (who is also directing the performance), Steve Sumida, Norm Kaneko, and, returning to her Seattle hometown from Hollywood to do this show, Amy Hill. The performance will introduce new members of the cast reading major roles: Tri Hoang, Isaiah Stanback, Sheldon Arakaki, and Ciony Bellande.

Other community members will also read parts in this multigenerational, multiethnic, multiracial presentation of GOLD WATCH, on a history that matters to all people of this nation.

// posted by Wes on Friday, February 17, 2006  /