The Cocktail Party – A play by Tatsuhiro Oshiro

September 29, 2011

A play by Tatsuhiro Oshiro, The Cocktail Party, will be premiering right here in Hawaii on October 26, 2011, at the Hawaii Okinawa Center. Mr. Oshiro is the first author from Okinawa to be awarded the Akutagawa Prize, a prestigious Japanese literary award, with this work in 1967. Now it has been transformed into a play that will be performed in English. The first performance will be held at the Hawaii Okinawa Center on Wednesday, October 26, 2011, at 7pm at the Hawaii Okinawa Center. Cost of admission is $15 (general) and $10 for seniors (65 and over)/students. For ticket information for the Hawaii Okinawa Center performance, please call the Hawaii United Okinawa Association at (808) 676-5400, or email info@huoa.org.

A second performance will also be held at the University of Hawaii at Manoa at Orvis Auditorium on Thursday, October 27, 2011 at 7:30pm. A panel discussion will follow this performance. For ticket information for the UH performance, please call 956-8246.

Please see http://uhpress.wordpress.com/2011/09/20/oshiro-tatsuhiros-the-cocktail-party/ for details.

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