Our ambition is that the performance is shared digitally with an audience including the group who are working on the parallel project in London, at a UK event marking the anniversary of this event of world significance. The second landing was in a bowl of udon noodles at Haneda airport – Hiroshima bound – and I found myself edging closer to fully arriving. The first couple of days were a gentle whirlwind of pulling various project threads back together and getting started. Since May, I have been navigating the beautiful complexities of cross-cultural communication to find children that are interested in taking part in the project, reach survivors of the bomb – “hibakusha” (literally – radiation affected people) who are willing to talk about their experiences and recruit a project team in Japan to help promote and deliver the workshops and arrange the interviews. I arrived in Tokyo around a week and a half ago in the midst of blistering heat and into a human scrum that makes London look like a sleepy backwater.
What they saw was a living hell.
Looking into her eyes, seeing her scars, hearing her speak and knowing in a very real sense what the true human sacrifice of nuclear war is, is unspeakably significant. Thanks to a grant from the Sasakawa Foundation, we have spent the last week doing just that.
It seems like one of the most frightening things about studying Hiroshima.
These stories now need to be passed onto the younger generations, so that they – and we – can learn from what has gone before. Wrong. When surveillance began, certain dietary staples were rationed in Japan, but ration regulations made special provision for women who were at least 20 weeks pregnant.
The feint thread of time between the “then” and “now” grew turned into an infinitely more tangible line; moments from long ago landed in the space in a tumble of plaster falling onto a young girl, a teenager being trapped under a roof, a young boy racing around the city to see his mother die in front of him. Whilst I was thinking about what I ask her, I got slightly side tracked by looking into all of this.
Huge thanks also to our Japanese collaborators. Later on that day, the three of them tried to get back into the city. On the fourth day, he tried again. The notion of remembering the past and learning from what has gone before, can be flippantly referenced and given much lip service, but to actually be present in a space devoted to creating these opportunities, feels important. I am not even a well-informed amateur, but these figures seem pretty terrifying.
2: Hiromi Kashima is an actor and clown-doctor who helped us throughout the workshop week, supporting the children as they got to grips with their new interviewing skills and ensuring that everything ran smoothly. This made me think about my generation growing up and the metaphorical moans that accompanied almost any of our grandparent’s Second World War stories. It is our hope that we, as theatre makers, can add something of value to the telling of Hiroshima’s story. We headed to a coffee bar to bang our heads together, in the true spirit of a peace-focused project, and ended up in a coffee bar with an unusual array of clothes and shoe-based merchandise, but alas – no tea.
Whether its getting the upper hand in an argument, having the last word, hitting back when someone hits you – its seems to be a lamentable human tendency to”get your own back”. We would like to thank the Daiwa Foundation for their generous support of the Grandchildren of Hiroshima. Monitoring of nearly all pregnancies in Hiroshima and Nagasaki began in 1948 and continued for six years.
Eek. He walked a bit further and then he saw a man that looked like his father.
Those blue wellies are in the porch and they have lost a bit of their comic sparkle. So once more, I have bid a fond farewell to the people of Hiroshima – or at least a few of them – and once more, I am readying myself for a life without pocari sweat. And for the even less lucky ones, losing everything.
Yet, in my mind, doubts had been lingering and rising: what if nobody turned up? Today Hiroshima is a thriving city with a population of 1.1 million and plenty of entertainment, carefree cyclists and Starbucks. It was about losing a brother, not having any parents, not having any friends left – or indeed losing an entirely family. Whilst I am obviously not a Hiroshima citizen and cannot speak on their behalf – we’ll have to wait for the chrysalis to crack to get a full pictures of responses – from the conversations that I did have with audience members after the performance, it felt like they were able to be very present in the experiences of those who lived through that day; that the link connecting themselves with their descendants felt much stronger. It is difficult to imagine how strange it must be to have some of your most traumatic, life defining moments presented back to you in a script, crafted by a team of people that barely know you and framed as the life you have lived.
The fabric of community theatre is as stunningly beautiful here as anywhere – the vast sweep and scale of images created, the varied textures of ages, faces and experiences, the direct transference of life into theatre and the sharp quality of the focused will towards collective collaboration and creation.
I gave a silent nod of thanks to my wellies and carried on. During the talk, we talked about the practice of London Bubble and Peth talked about the company’s approach to making work of this kind, named by Bubble as Vernacular Theatre. Our ambition is that the performance in July / August 2015 is shared digitally with an audience including the group who are working on a parallel project in London, at a UK event marking the anniversary of this event of world significance. These oral history interviews were conducted by local children in Hiroshima with survivors of the atomic bomb who were the children’s age when the bomb dropped. Like many of the survivors, his story was humbling and extraordinary.
She sat cross-legged on her bed, with age-defying dexterity, and chatted happily. These were not natural deaths or illnesses; this was an apocalypse entirely of our own making. On this date 74 years ago, the US dropped the first of two atomic bombs on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, killing more than 70,000 people instantly. Again, we will use the interviews as a starting point and we will be running workshops to explore the content of the interviews and to bring these stories to life for British participants.
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