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Cast members Samantha Smith '12 (left) and Irene Blumberg '14 fold paper cranes.
Lafayette College Theater will present its production of Kathryn Miller’s heartbreaking and poignant play, A Thousand Cranes, at 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 30-Saturday, Oct. 2 in the Williams Center for the Arts.
Japan’s ancient and rich theater traditions bring to life this moving adaptation of the book, Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, which has been translated into dozens of languages. It follows the true story of a girl who survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima for a decade before succumbing to leukemia at age 12. Facing death from the bomb’s effects, Sadako embraces an old tale that promises the gods will make her well again if she folds 1,000 paper origami cranes.
Tickets are $2 for students, $3 for Lafayette faculty and staff and for students at LVAIC schools, and $6 for the public. They can be obtained by calling the Williams Center box office at (610) 330-5009.
“Two years ago, Lafayette College Theater was awarded a Faculty Innovation Grant from the Provost’s Office to expand our course and production offerings to more prominently include non-Western Theater,” says director Mary Jo Lodge, assistant professor of English. “Since then, we have undertaken a variety of projects to that end. A Thousand Cranes is our last major non-Western undertaking during the scope of the grant, though certainly not the last foray College Theater intends to take into the rich theater that exists around the globe.”
College Theater productions are the cornerstone of the College’s new major in theater. Though, regardless of major, all Lafayette students are welcome to participate in productions as a cast or crew member.
Cast and Crew: