After the Quake

Description

written by haruki murakami
adapted for the stage and directed by frank galati
steppenwolf theatre company’s production
in association with la jolla playhouse

the art
Director Frank Galati won two Tony Awards for The Grapes of Wrath. Writer Haruki Murakami earned Japan’s equivalent of the Pulitzer. Now the two talents collide in after the quake, a bittersweet tale that measures love on the Richter scale. A timid man woos an old flame, enchanting her anxious daughter with whimsical stories. In this poignant new play, we see that a storyteller can’t dispel the world’s woes, but he can teach a child—and himself—how to face fear.

the artists
Frank Galati is renowned for transforming literary works into transcendent theatre. He won two Tony Awards—as adapter and director—for The Grapes of Wrath. He also directed the Broadway hit Ragtime, which turned E.L. Doctorow’s novel into a magical musical, and netted an Oscar nomination for his screenplay to Anne Tyler’s Accidental Tourist. This spring, he brings The Pirate Queen to Broadway.

Haruki Murakami became Japan’s most celebrated contemporary author after an epiphany at a baseball game convinced him he could write novels. His 13 award-winning books include Kafka on the Shore, Norwegian Wood and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. The two stories presented on our stage appeared in The New Yorker and GQ.

the buzz
“an elegant, economic, gently hypnotic piece of theater…all the elements reflect and satisfy a yearning for solace and safety.”—New York Times

“Murakami’s small gems caught the imagination of adapter-director Frank Galati, who has gracefully intertwined them into a mesmerizing 100-minute theater piece filled with plenty of humor and whimsy…a treatise on how we can travel with our imaginations to new, vibrant territory”—Chicago Sun-Times

More Info

Link

http://www.berkeleyrep.org/

Call

510.647.2949 (Box Office)