Little Boy, Big Taifoon

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 – it was also the play’s European premiere. For this purpose, Soeren Voima (Henschel Verlag) and Sachiko Hara collaborated on the German translation, which was published in Fachmagazin Theater der Zeit, issue 10/2001. Subsequently, the play was also staged at other theatres, for example at Deutsches Theater Berlin. Furthermore, Sachiko Hara directed it herself as part of a theatre project of the Japanology department at Hamburg University. Moreover, she directed and coordinated numerous readings of the play in various cities with amateur actors. This is part of her peace work.