Book Details

Title:

The Holocaust Memorial: A Play about Hiroshima


Author:Davis, Walter A.
Place:Bloomington, Indiana
Publisher:1st Books Library
Year:2000

Reference:

Davis, Walter A.. The Holocaust Memorial: A Play about Hiroshima . Bloomington, Indiana, 1st Books Library, 2000.


Categories:

Literature

Languages:

English

Description:

This is the scenario of a psychodrama, in which General Paul Tibbets, kidnapped by a historian who suspects that Tibbets’ book was fake ghost written, tries to set the record straight. Through the dialogue between them, they try to relive the process of the bombing and the day of August 6th, 1945. The drama depicts the hell caused by the bombing based on eye-witnesses' accounts. 広島の原爆投下をテーマにした心理劇。原爆を投下した兵士の一人ポール・チベッツと歴史家が主な登場人物。チベッツの書いた本の真偽を疑っている歴史家は、チベッツを誘拐し、過去の歴史を正そうとする。後半は被爆者の体験記から引用した証言を多く盛り込んで1945年8月6日のこの世の地獄のイメージを再現する。