Sisters Matsumoto

by Philip Kan Gotanda Narrated by Keiko Agena, June Angela, Greg Watanabe, Kurt Kanazawa, Ron Bottitta, Ryun Yu, Suzy Nakamura

Overview

After the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the US government sent thousands of Japanese American citizens to detention camps. In 1945, three Japanese-American sisters return to their farm in Stockton, California, after years in an internment camp, but the once prosperous family finds it's not easy to pick up the pieces of their former lives. As the details of their deceased father's final arrangements emerge, the sisters must work together to keep their dreams alive.

This recording is sponsored in part by California Civil Liberties Program from the California State Library.

Includes a conversation with actor George Takei, playwright Philip Kan Gotanda, and director Tim Dang.

Directed by Tim Dang.

An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring:

• Keiko Agena as Rose Matsumoto
• June Angela as Grace Matsumoto
• Ron Bottitta as Mr. Hersham
• Kurt Kanazawa as Henry
• Suzy Nakamura as Chiz Matsumoto
• Greg Watanabe as Bola
• Ryun Yu as Hideo

Sound Effects Artist, Jeff Gardner. Script Supervisor, Daniel Trostler. Production Manager, Nikki Hyde. Music Supervisor, Ronn Lipkin. Associate Artistic Director, Anna Lyse Erikson, Editor, Mitchell Lindskoog. Recording Engineer, Sound Designer and Mixer, Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood.

Recorded in Los Angeles before a live audience at The James Bridges Theater, UCLA, in November of 2018.

Editorial Reviews

APRIL 2019 - AudioFile

With poignant grace, Keiko Agena, June Angela, and Suzy Nakamura lead a stellar cast, playing three Japanese-American sisters who find hope, heartache, and hard-won humor when they return to their family farm in California after four long years locked away in a Japanese internment camp during WWII. They had planned to pick up where they left off, but their father and mother are gone, and even the deed to the farm has turned to dust. Listeners can hear the pressures of politics, racism, and family separation. The performance is followed by an excellent panel discussion focusing on how 120,000 U.S. citizens were “relocated” to camps during the war. The discussion features Japanese-American artists, including George Takei of “Star Trek,” who was 5 years old when he was interned. Important and powerful. B.P. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine

Product Details

BN ID:	2940172085994
Publisher:	L.A. Theatre Works
Publication date:	02/15/2019
Edition description:	Unabridged

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