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The Forgiveness Tree
A short play by Kathleen Tomko

June 19 - 28 2009
Directed by Jim Meady
Original Music by Adam Rosen

This is a fictional drama that weaves a story of international scope with a more intimate story that explores the universal theme of forgiveness. It takes an actual historical event and co-mingles it with the fictional story of a mother and her two adult daughters.

CAST

MAGGIE LAINNE NOBUO FUJITA MARTHA

Andrea Busch Betsy Jones Sam Chen Lynda Levy Clark

Two sisters, Maggie (Andrea Busch) and Lainne (Betsy Jones) come to an Oregon National Park at a site bombed by a Japanese pilot during WWII. The site also contains a connection with their deceased mother, Martha. A young Martha (Lynda Levy Clark) makes an impassioned plea to the town to allow Fujita to come and offer amends.

Maggie recounts the story of how Nobuo Fujita (Sam Chen) fire bombed the site and later returned to ask forgiveness of the forest.