1 Hour Photo - by Tetsuro Shigematsu (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>By exploring the major currents of the 20th century through the life story of one man, Mas Yamamoto, <i>1 Hour Photo</i> presents a moving portrait of our times.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>From the award-winning Canadian playwright, performer, and radio broadcaster Tetsuro Shigematsu comes<em> 1 Hour Photo</em>, the follow-up to his acclaimed one-man play<em> Empire of the Son</em>, which was nominated for six Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards. Shigematsu's outstanding new play, another multifaceted portrayal of a singular figure, tells the story of Mas Yamamoto, a man whose life was swept up by the major currents of the twentieth century: <br /><br />The year is 1977, the place planet Earth, and even though some of you were not yet born, believe me when I say it was very cool time in which to be alive ... Some of the things you know and love today were just being introduced. A movie named<em> Star Wars</em> came out. The U.S. Department of Defense launched a series of satellites you know as GPS. 1977 was the year the Apple II went on sale. You wouldn't have wanted the Apple I. It was made of wood. Seriously! ... But for my money, the coolest thing to launch in 1977 was one of the very first digital cameras. It was the size of a Volkswagen Beetle, if you can believe it, but here's the cool thing: they called it Voyager.<br /><br />From growing up in a fishing village on the banks of the Fraser River in British Columbia, to being confined at a Japanese Canadian internment camp during the Second World War, to helping build the Distant Early Warning Line in the Canadian Arctic during the height of the Cold War, <em>1 Hour Photo</em>'s Mas Yamamoto is a grand theatrical persona, his life saturated with the most vivid colours of our times.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><em>1 Hour Photo</em> is a powerful piece of writing that insists that the complex history of Canada, including the wrongs imposed on groups of people, must be remembered--Ann Wilson "https: //utpjournals.press/eprint/NYB4VX4KNT3RYX8CRY2X/full"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><strong>Tetsuro Shigematsu</strong> is a Canadian playwright, comedian, and radio broadcaster. Originally trained in the fine arts, he found a creative outlet writing for CBC Television's <em>This Hour Has 22 Minutes</em>. Then, in 2004, he became the first person of colour to host a daily national radio program in Canada when he took over <em>The Roundup</em> on CBC Radio, for which he co-wrote and co-produced nearly a thousand hours of network programming. He has written and produced more than fifty pieces of radio drama as well as the feature film <em>Yellow Fellas</em> (2007). He is currently a Vanier scholar and Ph.D. candidate at the University of British Columbia. Follow him on Twitter (@tweetsuro) or visit his website, shiggy.com.
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