Actually was drawn from our financial struggles trying to build this house in the berkley hills. But it also sort of shows you how real life intrudes into your work and how we either can listen to it and put it into it or try to ignore it. I usually choose to sort of put everything thats going on around me in the world when im reading what i find intellectually curious into the work, no matter what the story is. So lets turn our attention a little bit to these characters you have created, 9, i think, characters, all very extremely different from different backgrounds. You spoke just now about wanting to find an authentic voice for each of them and working from the inside out. So how do you go about creating specific voices for a jewish russian character by way of yokohama, for an African American character, for all these different characters . I know you worked with specific actors. Did they help at all . What was the process there . Absolutely. In terms of the African American charact
Actually was drawn from our financial struggles trying to build this house in the berkley hills. But it also sort of shows you how real life intrudes into your work and how we either can listen to it and put it into it or try to ignore it. I usually choose to sort of put everything thats going on around me in the world when im reading what i find intellectually curious into the work, no matter what the story is. So lets turn our attention a little bit to these characters you have created, 9, i think, characters, all very extremely different from different backgrounds. You spoke just now about wanting to find an authentic voice for each of them and working from the inside out. So how do you go about creating specific voices for a jewish russian character by way of yokohama, for an African American character, for all these different characters . I know you worked with specific actors. Did they help at all . What was the process there . Absolutely. In terms of the African American charact
And what ive even found is as i write characters now, for example in the play after the war, when i write characters that are not japanese american, that are African American, that are anglo american, as in this particular play, i have to be really really conscious of the fact that these characters, how they speak and the directness of their speech, in how aggressive or nonaggressive they are in certain situations, that i am seeing the world through that characters eyes and not my normal japanese american sort of perspective. Because my point of view, i have come to know, is a specific one, how my characters and how i talk to the world and interact with the world is very different than how other peoples might. So over the years i have learned how to both be aware of my own particular voice and how i have to also look beyond it if i want to write about other characters who are not part of a linage that has come from the internment camp experience. So in a long way of telling and respond
Building a house, but it may be something about money that comes up in the play but actually was drawn from our financial struggles trying to build this house in the berkley hills. But it also sort of shows you how real life intrudes into your work and how we either can listen to it and put it into it or try to ignore it. I usually choose to sort of put everything thats going on around me in the world when im reading what i find intellectually curious into the work, no matter what the story is. So lets turn our attention a little bit to these characters you have created, 9, i think, characters, all very extremely different from different backgrounds. You spoke just now about wanting to find an authentic voice for each of them and working from the inside out. So how do you go about creating specific voices for a jewish russian character by way of yokohama, for an African American character, for all these different characters . I know you worked with specific actors. Did they help at all
And died trying to prove we were loyal and here you did something which made us look disloyal. Here you did something which made us look bad. So as a consequence of your bad behavior, maybe more boys had to die. Maybe we had to work even harder. But i think it was because of the extreme circumstance of the time and the stakes were incredibly high that you did have a community that looked at these men as if they had, in fact, turned against their own community and had worked against those who had served and died. And that was the case. I know its still a problem now. I have a friend who is a no no boy and he talks about how, even now, 60something years later, there are people in the community who wont talk to him because he was a no no boy. But, again, its through the lens of present day politics, how weve begun to look at the events and studied them that the resistors from heart mountain who were another group who on constitutional grounds contested being serving. They refused to serve