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 Winner
of a
National Endowment for the Arts Playwriting Award.
Sadako
and the Paper Cranes: A Play for Young Audiences
Winner
of an Ohio Arts Council Playwriting Award.
Dramatic
One Act Play for Children and Young Audiences
Featured in Twenty
Great Plays for Children, published by St. Martin's Press, Foreword
Maurice Sendak
One
Act Play
Winner -- American High School Theatre Festival,
High School Thespian Contests, Competitions
Performed
at the
John F. Kennedy Center in Washington DC.
Children's
Play for School Tours and Educational Outreach
"A
tremendously moving piece..."
Children's
Book and Play Review
"September
11 completely changed what
it meant to do this play," says
Genevieve Deveyra who portrays Sadako in the Mill Mountain Theatre
production. "Now we are bringing a
message of peace that the world really needs to hear."
Sadako's
True Story: A Play for Children
"I'm
honored to be part
of this play and able to spread the story of Sadako," says
Akiko Hiroshima who played Sadako in Shoestring
Repertory's New Jersey production. "If
we are to make the audience think about world peace, I am very happy."
Professional
& Amateur Productions, Children's Play and Dramatic Play for all ages.
"Using
traditional Japanese theatre styles, A
Thousand Cranes offers a wonderful opportunity to share in a truly
multi-cultural experience."
Nebraska
Theatre Caravan
Theatre
for Young Audiences (TYA)
"The
magic of A
Thousand Cranes had
an impact that I'm sure will not soon fade from the lives of those
of us who were fortunate enough to be in
the audience. I
cannot recommend this piece highly enough."
Daniel
Higgins KDHX 88.1 FM St. Louis
Appropriate
for Children, Middle School, High School
and Children's Play Productions
"The
play is deeply spiritual. The message is that hope rises from the
ashes of tragedy."
Dori
Baker, Washington Post
"The
story of Sadako has done much to help my life and I believe this
play will be another source of strength and courage for me and many others."
Jonathan
Kiddish Weatherly PA
Children's
Play Script With Timely Message of World Peace.
In
one precise,
economical line, the playwright frees
Sadako
from her task, shifts emphasis from an individual
child
to the greater community, and expands the story's scope from
sustaining a single life to that of a global
effort
toward peace.
"It
is better," says her grandmother," for others to finish
the cranes."
Joseph
T. Rozmiarek, The Honolulu Advisor
Featured in Twenty
Great Plays for Children, published by St. Martin's Press, Foreword
Maurice Sendak
One
Act Play Contest & High School Thespian
Theatre
Competitions
Performed
at the
John F. Kennedy Center in Washington DC.
Children's
Play for School Tours and Educational Outreach
"A
tremendously moving piece..."
Children's
Book and Play Review
"September
11 completely changed
what it meant to do this play,"
says Genevieve Deveyra who portrays Sadako in the Mill Mountain
Theatre production. "Now we are
bringing a message of peace that the world really needs to hear."
Sadako's
True Story: A Play for Children
Appropriate
for Children, Middle School, High School
and Children's Play Productions
Winner
of a
National Endowment for the Arts Playwriting Award.
Sadako
and the Paper Cranes: A Play for Young Audiences
Winner
of an Ohio Arts Council Playwriting Award.
Dramatic
One Act Play for Children and Young Audiences
Featured in Twenty
Great Plays for Children, published by St. Martin's Press, Foreword
Maurice Sendak
One
Act Play
Winner -- American High School Theatre Festival,
High School Thespian Contests, Competitions
Winner
of a
National Endowment for the Arts Playwriting Award.
Sadako
and the Paper Cranes: A Play for Young Audiences
Winner
of an Ohio Arts Council Playwriting Award.
Dramatic
One Act Play for Children and Young Audiences
Featured in Twenty
Great Plays for Children, published by St. Martin's Press, Foreword
Maurice Sendak |
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The
True Story of Sadako and the Paper Cranes
Multiple Award Winner, National Endowment for the Arts
A
Thousand Cranes for Professional Theatres
 
Stella Adler
Academy, Los Angeles, CA
"A
Thousand Cranes is one of those rare
experiences
that teaches you what theatre for young audiences, in its
highest form, is all about."
Hugh
Murphy, for the Ohio Arts Councilil.
A
Thousand Cranes is
an extraordinary departure from children's theatre as usual. This
play may be staged with a few simple props and unlimited imagination.
The result is always elegant and moving. Even the youngest audiences
are spellbound.
Extraordinary
Theatre for Children
 
A
Thousand Cranes, Lexington Children's
Theatre, KY
"A
Thousand Cranes is one of the most moving pieces of American
playwriting I have ever had the privilege of experiencing, It has a
timely theme and universal appeal.
It
is
obvious why it has won so many awards and hearts."
Suzanne
Larson, Artistic Director - Lady's Island Dinner Theatre
A
Thousand Cranes is the true and
poignant story of Sadako Sasaki, a young victim of the Hiroshima
atomic bomb disaster. She was only two years old when the bomb fell
and seemed to be unharmed, but at twelve she was diagnosed with
"radiation sickness" an aftermath of the bomb's effects.
With boundless optimism, she takes an old story to heart: If a sick
person folds a thousand paper origami cranes the gods will grant her
wish and make her well again. She begins to fold her thousand cranes.
A
Powerful Story for Young Audiences
 
Honolulu
Theatre for Youth
Before
Sadako is able to
complete her task, she is visited by her Grandmother who lovingly
carries her on the back of a glorious crane, to the land of a
thousand, thousand spirits. There she joins her ancestors and learns
that her true wish may be granted.
 
Childsplay,
Arizona's Professional Theatre for Young Audiences
Her
friends and classmates finished
Sadako's work. They folded enough cranes to make a thousand. Today
children in Japan and all over the world fold a thousand cranes and
lay them at the feet of Sadako's statue in the Hiroshima Peace Park.
Their wish is engraved at the bottom of the monument:
This
is our cry,
This
is our prayer,
Peace
in the world.
Set
Design, Indianapolis Repertory Theatre
"A
tremendously moving piece..."
Children's
Book and Play Review
A
Dramatic Message of Peace in the World
 
Barter
Theatre, VA -- Wild Swan Theatre, MI
A
Play That Inspires Compassion
National
Crane Project: David’s Origami Cranes
In
photo, David Heard, 10, of Easton holds a thousand origami cranes.
Lafayette College produced "A Thousand Cranes," the story
based on a Japanese tradition that people who are sick will get well
if they fold a thousand origami cranes. They are bringing all these
cranes to Lehigh Valley Hospital-Muhlenberg to share with kids in the
pediatric cancer center. - The Morning Call Allentown, PA
Elegant
Simple Staging - Stunning Results
Set Design
by G. Warren Stiles, Adventure Stage Chicago
"I cannot recommend this piece highly enough."
Daniel
Higgins, KDHX 88.1 FM, St. Louis
WATCH:
A Thousand Cranes Intro-Video
Ritual
Theatre Company, New York, NY
"Kathryn
Schultz Miller's A Thousand Cranes is the moving, true story about
the effects of war on the life of a 12-year-old girl, told in
strikingly simple, but strongly theatrical terms. It is an
extraordinary opportunity to share in a multicultural experience that
has wowed family audiences throughout America."
Stephanie
Riven, Center of Contemporary Arts, St. Louis
"Strikingly
Simple -- Strongly Theatrical"  
Second
Youth Family Theatre, Austin, TX
"The
play is deeply spiritual. The message is that
hope
rises from the ashes of tragedy."
Dori Baker,
Washington Post
One
of "Twenty Great Plays for Children"
 
Repertory
Theatre St. Louis -- Childsplay, AZ
Featured in Twenty
Great Plays for Children
Coleman
A. Jennings, St Martin's Press, Foreword Maurice Sendak
A
Truly Multi-Cultural Experience
 
Asian
Children's Festival, Singapore
"It is such a well-done, wonderful script that is really
appropriate for so many different age groups. Some of the
schools brought kindergarten classes and teachers said that the kids
were mesmerized."
Katy Brown, Barter Theatre, Abington, VA
Excellent
Play for Touring to Schools
 
ArtReach
Touring Theatre,
Cincinnati -- Lexington
Children's Theatre
"In
one precise, economical line, the playwright frees Sadako from her
task, shifts emphasis from an individual child to the greater
community, and expands the story's scope from sustaining a single
life to that of a global effort toward peace. "It is
better," says her grandmother," for others to finish the cranes."
Joseph
T. Rozmiarek, The Honolulu Advisor
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There
are 3 Versions of
A
Thousand Cranes:
Touring
Version (this page)
For
Professional Theatres
Cast
of 3, for Adult Actors.
(1m,
2f)
Expanded
Version
For
Middle Schools & High Schools
Flexible
Cast of 13 for grades 6-12
(4m,
4f, 5m/f)
School
Play Version
For
Primary School Students
Flexible
Cast of 17-38, grades
K-6
(2m,
4f, 9-32m/f)
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"Timely
Theme of Universal Appeal"
 
First
Stage, Milwaukee -- Hangar Theatre, Ithaca, NY
"A Thousand Cranes is a play about connecting to
the
past in order to see the present more clearly."
Esther,
"A
Catholic Mom in Hawaii"
Play
for Professional Touring to Schools
 
Riverside
Theatre Works, Hyde Park, MA
Sadako
and the Thousand Paper Cranes
 
Phantom
Projects, La Mirada Theatre, CA
Many
professional theatres have
staged A Thousand Cranes including the Nebraska Theatre Caravan, The
Fulton Theatre Company, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis and the
George Street Players. These extraordinary set designs are from
Indiana Repertory Theatre's production, by Karen TenEyck and
perfectly evoke the mystical and spiritual mood of the story.
Karen
TenEyck, Set Design, Indianapolis Repertory Theatre
Recent producers: Sundance
Children's Theatre, Sundance Institute, Salt Lake City, UT; Mill
Mountain Theatre, Roanoake, VA; Virgina Stage, Norfolk; Walnut Street
Theatre, Philadelphia;
Community Asian Theatre of Sierra, CA; North Coast Repertory Theatre,
CA; Theatre
Center Inc, Deland FL; Rockford College, IL; Fairbanks North
Starborough, AK
Karen
TenEyck, Set Design, Indianapolis Repertory Theatre
Playhouse
of Point Park College, PA; Beechworth Secondary Colg-GTA, Australia;
Cactus Shadows High School, Cave Creek AZ; New Stage Theatre, Jackson
MS; Northwestern University, Chicago; Hangar Theatre, Ithica, NY;
Yorktown Roman Catholic School, Yorktown Sask Canada; Salina
Community Theatre, KS; St Josephs College, Australia; Honolulu
Theatre for Youth; Repertory Theatre of St. Louis; North Carolina
Shakespeare Festival, High Point; Lexington Children's Theatre, KY;
Children's Theatre Charlotte, NC.
Info
Audience |
Elementary
Schools, Middle Schools, High Schools, Parents, Teachers, Families |
Cast |
1m,
2f, larger cast possible |
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About
40 minutes |
CD |
Original
music, cues, sound effects |
Royalty |
Please
contact: Dramatic
Publishing |
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TEACHERS!
Are you looking for a version of this play that you can perform with
your students? Cast size 30+, adapted for young performers.
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