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ArtReach's
Famous
Award-Winning
Play A Thousand Cranes. This touring version has been performed
world-wide and inspired young people to strive for peace.
First
Stage Milwaukee
 A
Thousand Cranes is the Winner of a
National Endowment for the Arts Playwriting Award.
Featured
in Theatre for Young Audiences:
20
Great Plays for Children, Coleman Jennings
Performed
at the
John F. Kennedy Center in Washington DC.
Winner
of an Ohio Arts Council Playwriting Award.
Barter Theatre
VA
"A
tremendously moving piece..."
Children's
Book
and
Play Review
"Kathryn
Schultz
Miller's
A
Thousand Cranes is the moving, true story about the effects of war
on the life of a 12-year-old girl, told in strikingly simple, but
strongly theatrical
terms."
Stephanie
Riven, Center of Contemporary Arts, St. Louis
Wild
Swan Theatre, MI
"The
play is deeply spiritual. The message is that hope rises from the
ashes of tragedy."
Dori
Baker, Washington Post
Asian
Children's Festival, Singapore
"I
cannot recommend this piece highly enough."
Daniel
Higgins, KDHX 88.1 FM, St. Louis
St.Louis
Repertory Theatre
"It
is such a well-done, wonderful script that is really appropriate for
so many different age groups. Some of the schools brought
kindergarten classes and teachers said that the kids were mesmerized."
Katy Brown, Barter Theatre, Abington, VA
"A
Thousand Cranes is a play about connecting to the past in order to
see the present more clearly."
Esther,
"A
Catholic Mom in Hawaii"
"Director
Jeffery Matthews has fashioned a moving presentation out of very
simple materials: four actors, a basic set, and a few simple props.
Sadako sees her grandmother again and flies on a crane's back to
heaven, an illusion beautifully realized."
Sarah
Boslaugh, TalkinBroadway, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis
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A
Thousand Cranes for Professional Theatres 
Syracuse Stage Company, NY
"A
Thousand Cranes is one of those rare experiences that teaches you
what theatre for young audiences, in its highest form, is all about."
Hugh
Murphy, for the Ohio Arts Councilil.
A
Thousand Cranes is an
extraordinary departure from children's theatre as usual. This play
may be staged with a few simple props and unlimited imagination. The
result is always elegant and moving.
Even
the Youngest Audiences are Spellbound 
Syracuse Stage Company, NY
"A
Thousand Cranes is one of the most moving pieces of American
playwriting I have ever had the privilege of experiencing, It has a
timely theme and universal appeal. It
is
obvious why it has won so many awards and hearts."
Suzanne Larson,
Artistic Director - Lady's Island Dinner Theatre
A
Thousand Cranes is the true and
poignant story of Sadako Sasaki, a young victim of the Hiroshima
atomic bomb disaster.
 
Stella Adler Academy, Los
Angeles, CA
Sadako
was only two years old when the bomb
fell and seemed to be unharmed, but at twelve she was diagnosed with
"radiation sickness" an aftermath of the bomb's effects.
 
With
boundless optimism, she takes an old
story to heart: If a sick person folds a thousand paper origami
cranes the gods will grant her wish and make her well again. She
begins to fold her thousand cranes.
Sadako
Folds Her Thousand Cranes
 
Repertory
Theatre St. Louis -- Hexagon Theatre, So Africa
Before
Sadako is able to
complete her task, she is visited by her Grandmother who lovingly
carries her on the back of a glorious crane...
A
Powerful Story for Young Audiences
 
Highly
Acclaimed Production by the Honolulu Theatre for Youth
...To
the land of a thousand, thousand spirits. There
she joins her ancestors and learns that her true wish may be granted.
Extraordinary
Theatre for Children
 
A
Thousand Cranes, Lexington Children's
Theatre, KY
Her
friends and classmates finished
Sadako's work.
They folded
enough cranes to make a thousand...
A
Dramatic Message of Peace in the World
 
Barter Theatre, VA - Adventure
Stage, Chicago
Today
children in Japan and all over the world
fold a thousand cranes and lay them at the feet of Sadako's statue in
the Hiroshima Peace Park. Their wish is engraved at the bottom of the monument:
"This
is our cry, This is our prayer, Peace in the world"
"Strikingly
Simple -- Strongly Theatrical"
 
Childsplay,
Arizona's Professional Theatre for Young Audiences
"In
one precise, economical line, the playwright frees Sadako from her
task, shifts emphasis from an individual child to the greater
community, and expands the story's scope from sustaining a single
life to that of a global effort toward peace. "It is
better," says her grandmother," for others to finish the cranes."
Joseph T.
Rozmiarek, The Honolulu Advisor
"The
Message is Hope"
 
Second Youth
Theatre, Austin, TX - Asian Children's Festival, Singapore
"It
is an extraordinary opportunity to share in a multicultural
experience that has wowed family audiences throughout America."
Stephanie
Riven, Center of Contemporary Arts, St. Louis
Karen
TenEyck, Set Design, Indianapolis Repertory Theatre
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There
are 3 Versions of
A
Thousand Cranes:
Touring
Version (this page)
For
Professional Theatres
Cast
of 3, for Adult Actors.
(1m,
2f)
Medium
Version
For
Middle Schools & High Schools
Flexible
Cast of 13 for grades 6-12
(4m,
4f, 5m/f)
School
Play Version
For Primary
School Students
Flexible Cast
of 17-38, grades
K-6
(2m,
4f, 9-32m/f)
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Production
Information |
Audience |
Elementary
Schools, Middle Schools, Parents, Teachers, Families, Community |
Cast |
1m, 2f, larger
cast possible |
Time |
About 45 minutes |
Published
By |
Dramatic
Publishing Co. |
Royalty |
Royalty
& Performance License Required |
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TEACHERS!
Are you looking for a version of this play that you can perform with
your students? Cast size 30+, adapted for young performers.
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