A
Thousand Cranes
Small
Cast (Touring) Play for Theatres, Schools
Medium
Cast Version | Large
Cast School Play Version
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A
Thousand Cranes
Cast:
3 (1M, 2F), expandable, adults
Time:
about 40-45
minutes
CD:
sound FX, background music
Audience:
primary-intermediate,
families
Published
by: Dramatic
Publishing
(Arrangements
for scripts, performance rights)
The true and poignant story of
Sadako Sasaki. A touching play about strength, hope and peace
for the world.
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A
Thousand Cranes
Cast:
3 (1M, 2F), expandable, adults
Time:
about 40-45
minutes
CD:
sound FX, background music
Audience:
primary-intermediate,
families
Published
by: Dramatic
Publishing
(Arrangements
for scripts, performance rights)
The true and poignant story of
Sadako Sasaki. A touching play about strength, hope and peace
for the world.
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A Thousand Cranes is an
extraordinary departure from children's theatre as usual.
Thought provoking and dramatic, even the youngest audiences can
understand the play's deepest meanings.
A Thousand
Cranes for Professional Theatres
  
Syracuse Stage Company, NY
"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.
"It
is
obvious why it has won so many awards and hearts."
  
Syracuse Stage Company, NY - Stella Adler
Academy, Los Angeles, CA
"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.
"The
girl who sparked a movement of peace."
 
Flat Rock
Playhouse, NC - The
Gemini Collective - Adelaide Fringe 'A Thousand Cranes'
Sadako
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.
"It is
such a well-done, wonderful script..."
  
Syracuse Stage Company, NY
- Honolulu Theatre for Youth
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.
Extraordinary
Theatre for Children
  
A Thousand
Cranes, Lexington Children's
Theatre - Childsplay, Arizona's
Professional Theatre for Young Audiences
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. Her
friends and classmates finished Sadako's work. They folded enough
cranes to make a thousand...
Sadako
Folds Her Thousand Cranes
  
Repertory Theatre St. Louis -
Hexagon Theatre, So Africa - Honolulu Theatre for Youth
"Everyone
who worked on the show was profoundly moved.”
  
A Thousand Cranes, SecondStory Repertory,
Redmond, WA
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"
 
Children's Museum & Theatre of Maine, Portland
"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
"Strikingly
Simple -- Strongly Theatrical"
  
Barter Theatre, VA - Adventure Stage, Chicago - Childsplay,
AZ
"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
"A
tremendously moving piece..."
Children's Book and Play Review
A Thousand
Cranes has three versions:
Large
Cast School Play Version
Flexible Cast of 17-38 (2M,
4F, all others M/F) for grades K-6
Medium
Cast Version
Flexible Cast of 13 (4M, 4F,
5M/F) for grades 6-12
Small Cast
(Touring) Version (this page)
Cast of 3 (1M, 2F) for adult actors.
"Elegant,
sophisticated and imaginative."
 
Adelaide
Fringe Festival 2019. The Gemini Collective.
A Thousand
Cranes is the Winner of National
Endowment for the Arts Playwriting Award
   
ArtReach's Famous Award-Winning
Play A Thousand Cranes. This touring version has been performed
world-wide and inspired young people to strive for peace.
 
Published: 20 Great Plays
for Children - Scholastic
Performed
at the
John F. Kennedy Center in Washington DC. Winner of an Ohio
Arts Council Playwriting Award.
More Great Comments...
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producing A Thousand Cranes? Click for Productions
    
  
    
     
     
  
    
Free Resources: In the News,
Behind the Scenes, Directing Tips, Classroom Activities
   
Asian Children's Festival,
Singapore - ArtReach Touring Theatre - Wild Swan Theatre - St. Louis Rep
"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."
Stephanie Riven, Center of
Contemporary Arts, St. Louis
Community
Activity: Fold Cranes for the Play and Send to Sadako
 
WE Players
Inc., East Tawas, MI
“I
hope that young people, teachers, and parents watching this show are
able to discuss with each other the importance and need for peace and
reflection before making any decisions. I encourage everyone to learn
to fold a crane and use those few moments to reflect on those that
have gone before us and to find peace within ourselves.”
Octavia Biggs,
Director, Lexington Children's Theatre
"The play
is deeply spiritual. The message is that hope rises from the ashes of tragedy."
Dori Baker, Washington Post
"I
cannot recommend this piece highly enough."
Daniel Higgins, KDHX 88.1 FM,
St. Louis
"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
"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"
"Director
Jeffery Matthews has fashioned a moving presentation out of very
simple materials: four actors, a basic set, and a few simple props.
Sadako sees her grandmother again and flies on a crane's back to
heaven, an illusion beautifully realized."
Sarah Boslaugh, TalkinBroadway,
Repertory Theatre of St. Louis
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