'' Thousand Years Waiting '' ( 2006 ) is about a woman in present-day New York City reading a memoir of a Japanese woman from a thousand years ago who is reading '' The Tale of Genji '' . The play employs Bunkaru dances . The play was co-produced by Crossing Jamaica Avenue and Performance Space 122 . Caridad Svich from '' The Brooklyn Rail '' says , “ Thousand Years Waiting exemplifies Miyagawa ’s tender and celebratory quality as a dramatist , and her ability to crystallize dramatic moments with grace . ” '' I Have Been to Hiroshima Mon Amour '' ( 2009 ) was produced at the Voice & Vision Theater at part of the Hiroshima Project at Ohio Theatre . Written as a response to the famous 1959 film '' Hiroshima mon amour '' , the play follows three stories taking place at different points in time . The first follows a French actor who falls in love with a man in Hiroshima , the second is about a man ’s fiancée who becomes a victim of the bomb , and the third revolves around three students in New york City who watch the 1959 film and argue about it . Miyagawa said she wrote this film because , “ I was annoyed by the appropriation of the city ’s tragedy by the French female protagonist . How could one person ’s loss possibly be thought of as a metaphor for the deaths of one hundred thousand people ? ” . Martin Harries , a NYU English professor , praises the play , “ There are many plays that look like they want to be movies . There are too few that take them on in meaningful , craft , theatrical ways . Here is one . ” '' I Came to Look for You on Tuesday '' ( 2013 ) premiered at the La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club . Miyagawa was inspired to write the play after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami affected her family in Japan . She and the director , Alice Reagan , held salons where people could share their own personal stories of reunion as part of The Tuesday Following . The play follows Maia who was saved by her mother ’s sacrifice in a Tsunami and how she reunited with her father who was distraught by her mother ’s death . BroadwayWorld.com says , “ I Came to Look for You on Tuesday is a surprising and mythical story , by turns poignant and humorous , about our need to reconnect ” . '' The Huffington Post '' adds , “ Overall , this production is creative , engaging , and quite brave . ” '' This Lingering Life '' ( 2015 ) premiered at the Theatre of Yugen . The play was inspired by 14th century Japanese Noh plays , which Miyagawa studied in Japan during her Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship . The play retells nine ancient Japanese stories with 27 characters , all which have no names . Miyagawa said in an interview that the characters , “ they are identified by their types , such as Crazy Woman , Mystical Warrior , Woman with Tragic Hair , and Gangster on the Run , in an attempt to create sympathetic characters without making them into our neighbors . ” The play received critical acclaim . '' The Huffington Post '' said , “ Miyagawa 's plays , this one especially , sit somewhere between this world and another world . They also commit so fully to their own aesthetic that I usually find myself pondering the fascinating rules of this alternate existence hours or even days later ( this lingering life indeed ) . ” '' The New Yorker '' praised the play as ” clever , stylish , and often funny ”
2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
Chiori Miyagawa