"OBON" a staged reading of a work-in-progress by Yu Miri

Event Date: September 21, 2026 (7PM) & September 23, 2026 (7:30PM)

Yū Miri, one of Japan’s most acclaimed playwrights and novelists, will present staged readings of her work-in-progress “OBON.”

Based on oral history interviews that Yū and her collaborator Michael Bourdaghs (Robert S. Ingersoll Distinguished Service Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations) have carried out with approximately fifty members of Chicago’s Japanese American community, the play brings together professional actors with community member interviewees to reimagine the multi-generational history of a Japanese American Chicago, including the 20,000 persons who moved to the city from wartime incarceration camps and their descendants, as well as more recent arrivals from Japan and elsewhere.

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