NHK WORLD PRIME

Season 7, Episode 19

Episode Title: Staging Shared Memories —Yu Miri and Young Fukushima Actors—

Air Date: 2023-09-09

Overview:

In 2015, novelist and playwright Yu Miri moved to Minamisoma City in Fukushima Prefecture and opened a book café and a small theater. In the summer of 2023, she decided to produce a play based on the effects on young people of the Great East Japan Earthquake, the nuclear power plant accident and COVID-19. She interviews local actors and high school drama club members about their experiences back then, and together they write and present the play.