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The world's a stage.(Oriza Hirata)(Stephen DiMenna, Marianna Houston train students)

American Theatre,  July, 2006  

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NEW YORK CITY: Oriza Hirata, artistic director of Tokyo's Seinendan Theater Company, brought home some quiet news this past March to the Japan Society in New York City. "When Japanese soldiers went to Iraq, it was the first time in 60 years that Japan had participated in a war," Hirata says.

His tongue-in-cheek historical parody, The Yalta Conference, recreates the February 1945 meeting at which Stalin, Churchill and a terminally ill Franklin Roosevelt determined the shape of the postwar world. "Israel and Palestine, the issue of North Korea--they all stemmed from ...

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