北野ゆり يوري on Twitter
'「日本植民地時代の１９４１年、日本東京の砂糖工場に就職できるという言葉にだまされて、
インドネシア駐留の日本軍慰安婦として連行された朝鮮人少女コウンの物語を扱った。」
慰安婦を扱ったミュージカル「コンフォートウーマン」が米で３冠
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9:04 AM - 10 Jan 2020 https://twitter.com/yuric117/status/1215680748713168896
Winners Announced For 2019 BroadwayWorld Los Angeles Awards https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Winners-Announced-For-2019-BroadwayWorld-Los-Angeles-Awards-20200108
>Best Musical - Local
>COMFORT WOMEN: A NEW MUSICAL - The Los Angeles Theater Center
>…
>Director of a Musical - Local
>Dimo Hyun Jun Kim - COMFORT WOMEN: A NEW MUSICAL - The Los Angeles Theater Center
>…
>Leading Actress in a Musical - Local
>Abigail Choi Arader - COMFORT WOMEN: A NEW MUSICAL - The Los Angeles Theater Center
Musical about 'comfort women' draws attention to horrific WWII practice https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/musical-about-comfort-women-draws-attention-horrific-wwii-practice-n1044166
>Kim was inspired to write about the women in 2012 after the re-election of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
>and hearing claims from Japanese groups that comfort women were professional prostitutes.
>…
>Along with those changes, this year's production has cut down on violent scenes.
>“If we're too heavy on the sexual assault sequence or the torture sequence or anything violent, we miss the focus of the show, which is the girls,” Kim said.
>“And I don’t want the audience to think Japan is the devil and Korea is the victim. I’m trying to show more that this is a human rights issue.”
>…
>In the years since the musical's first run, Dimo Kim believes that the momentum for spreading awareness about comfort women has decreased,
>in part because of the Japanese government's attempts to suppress that history.
>Phyllis Kim, however, said she believes that such attempts aren’t effective, and instead have kept the issue alive by bringing more attention to it.
>…
>“When they die,” he said referring to comfort women,
>“I wish they know that people heard their stories, and their braveness to talk about this issue worked.
