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DESCRIPTION:<strong>PLAYWRIGHT PHILIP GOTANDA TO DISCUSS FOUR-PLAY\nANTHOLO
 GY ‘NO MORE CHERRY BLOSSOMS’ AT PROGRAM\nSET FOR JAPANESE AMERICAN NAT
 IONAL MUSEUM MARCH 26</strong>\n\nLOS ANGELES.—Award-winning playwright 
 <a href="/wiki/index.php/Philip_Kan_Gotanda">Philip Kan Gotanda</a> will d
 iscuss his almost three decades of work with a special focus on four plays
  that make up the recently published anthology\, <em>No More Cherry Blosso
 ms: Sisters Matsumoto and Other Plays</em> in a special public program set
  for Sunday\, March 26\, beginning at 2 p.m. at the Japanese American Nati
 onal Museum in Little Tokyo.\n\nGotanda\, who has been recognized for his 
 work by foundations and agencies such as the Guggenheim\, Rockefeller\, PE
 W Charitable Trust and TCG-NEA and was presented the Lila Wallace Readers 
 Digest Award\, will provide insight into the four plays in his anthology\,
  all which primarily deal with Japanese American women and their challenge
 s and choices. The four plays are <em>Sisters Matsumoto</em>\, <em>The Win
 d Cries Mary</em>\, <em>Ballad of Yachiyo</em>\, and <em>Under The Rainbow
 </em>. Each play is set in a different decade of the 20th Century and\, ta
 ken as a whole\, presents multiple generations of Nikkei women.\n\n<em>Sis
 ters Matsumoto</em> depicts the challenge for three sisters returning from
  the World War II concentration camps to their homes in Stockton and their
  struggle to reestablish their pre-war lives. <em>The Wind Cries Mary</em>
  is set in San Francisco in 1968\, just as the Asian American Movement is 
 erupting on college campuses. <em>Ballad of Yachiyo</em> is the sexual com
 ing of age look at a young Japanese immigrant woman in 1919 Hawai`i. <em>U
 nder The Rainbow</em> is the combining of two one-act plays: <em>Natalie W
 ood Is Dead</em>\, which reveals the tension between a mother and daughter
 \, both television actresses\, whose career choices are limited\; and\, <e
 m>White Manifesto and Other Tales of Self-Entitlement\, or\, Got Rice?</em
 > which deals with a white male’s preference for Asian American women.\n
 \nGotanda’s plays have been performed all over the country and internati
 onally. <em>Ballad of Yachiyo</em> was produced at London’s Gate Theatre
  and <em>Sisters Matsumoto</em> was translated into Japanese and performed
  at the Mingei Theatre in Tokyo. Last year\, Gotanda collaborated with Mae
 stro Kent Nagano on the orchestral work with spoken text\, <a href="/wiki/
 index.php/Manzanar:_An_American_Story"><em>Manzanar: An American Story</em
 ></a>.\n\nGotanda began working in the theater with his first work\, <em>T
 he Avocado Kid or Zen in the Art of Guacamole</em>\, which was a musical. 
 Over his career\, he developed a series of plays\, <em>The Wash</em>\, <em
 >Fish Head Soup</em> and <em>A Song for a Nisei Fisherman</em>\, which con
 stitute his family trilogy. More recently\, Gotanda has begun to create in
 dependent films\, producing “The Kiss”\, “Drinking Tea”\, and “L
 ife Tastes Good”.\n\nThis public program was organized in recognition of
  Women’s History Month. It will include a staged reading from one of the
  four plays and a book signing will follow. The program is free to Nationa
 l Museum members or with regular admission. <em>No More Cherry Blossoms</e
 m> is available at the Museum Store or through its online outlet at <a hre
 f="http://www.janmstore.com/">www.janmstore.com</a>. For more information 
 on the program or to make reservations\, call the Japanese American Nation
 al Museum at (213) 625-0414. Or go to <a href="http://www.janm.org">www.ja
 nm.org</a>.\n
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SUMMARY:PLAYWRIGHT PHILIP GOTANDA TO SPEAK MARCH 26
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