Projects

Hiroshima Monster Girl

A performance by Sachiko Hara

Hiroshima Monster Girl is a solo performance by Sachiko Hara. In 30 minutes she tells what happened in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, how a girl survived there, how she continues to live, how she later meets a girl from Fukushima, what she wishes for the world today. Sachiko Hara speaks a haunting text and plays with strong body expression and interacts with projected video images. The music was composed by the Japanese improvisation musician Kazuhisa Uchihashi. Pictures by Goro Shikoku are shown, who painted pictures about Hiroshima all his life.

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Hiroshima-Salon

A talk format by and with Sachiko Hara

The Hiroshima Salon is different every time. They are different themes, with different guests and different content in different places.
This is the place where I discuss with the guests the personal reports about the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, about nuclear problems of the world, about the friendship between Japan and Germany and about world peace. The viewers see my home video recordings, which I shot in Hiroshima, Fukushima, Tokyo and Germany.

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Little Boy – Big Taifoon

A reading with Sachiko Hara

The play ‘Little Boy-Big Tyfoon” by Japanese author Hisashi Inoue celebrated its world premiere in 2008 in Japan. Sachiko Hara became attentive to the play and proposed it to Schauspiel Hannover as Hannover is Hiroshima’s twin city. The premiere at Schauspiel Hannover took place on September 18, 2010.

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Osaka-Salon

An evening by and with Sachiko Hara

Hamburg’s twin city Osaka is known in Japan for humorous people, rich food culture and energetic businessmen. Since 2010, the actress Sachiko Hara has been hosting salons at irregular intervals that revolve around her home country Japan and alternate between performance, lecture and show.
With green tea and typical snacks, history and tradition meet reality and fantasy, karaoke and cosplay meet traditional dances and ikebana, old Japanese meet young manga fans.

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