After two years of development, Queen Anne director Arne Zaslove is bringing the play “The Realm of Whispering Ghosts: If Truman Met Einstein” to the stage.
The show -- which will run Aug. 30 to Sept. 15 at the Bathhouse Theatre -- explores what might have happened if Harry Truman and Albert Einstein had met.
The play looks at how this meeting could have impacted the past by bringing together two characters in the Buddhist afterlife (bardo). The characters, a young Hiroshima victim and a U.S. prisoner-of-war soldier, work together to change history.
The actors will use Noh masks and costumes similar to the clothes worn by Hiroshima victims.
“I’ve been involved in the development of this play over several years now,” Zaslove said in a press release, “and it evoked a powerful response in the audiences at two staged readings."
"The Realm of Whispering Ghosts: If Truman Met Einstein” will run Aug. 30 to Sept. 15. Tickets are available through Brown Paper Tickets. (http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/391493) There will be a student matinee on Wednesday, Sept. 11.
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