About the Project
A new play about the physical and emotional scars left by the bombing of Hiroshima. Shuttling back and forth between 1985 and 1955, New York and Hiroshima, the play explores imagined encounters between, on the one hand, a Japanese-American reporter and an elderly Paul Tibbets, pilot of the Enola Gay, and, on the other, a survivor-turned-prostitute and a young Robert Lewis, the mission’s copilot. Thoroughly researched, formally inventive, and unflinchingly human, Ashes, Ashes, strives to examine the defining event of the 20th century from all sides, in all of its complexity.
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