Hold These Truths - Jeanne Sakata torrent

Category: Full Cast, Plays & Theater
Language: EnglishKeywords: L.A. Theatre Works
Written by Jeanne Sakata
Read by Ryun Yu, Matthew Floyd Miller, Suzy Nakamura, Matt Walker, Greg Watanabe
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
During WWII in Seattle, University of Washington student Gordon Hirabayashi fights the US government’s orders to forcibly remove and incarcerate all people of Japanese ancestry on the West Coast. As he struggles to reconcile his country’s betrayal with his passionate belief in the US Constitution, Gordon begins a 50-year journey toward a greater understanding of America’s triumphs - and a confrontation with its failures.
Includes an interview with playwright Jeanne Sakata.
Hold These Truths is sponsored in part by the California Civil Liberties Program from the California State Library.
Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood, in December 2018.
Directed by Jessica Kubzansky
Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg
Ryun Yu as Gordon Hirabayashi
Matthew Floyd Miller as Additional voices
Suzy Nakamura as Additional voices
Matt Walker as Additional voices
Greg Watanabe as Additional voices
1 hr and 44 mins


During WWII in Seattle, University of Washington student Gordon Hirabayashi fights the US government’s orders to forcibly remove and incarcerate all people of Japanese ancestry on the West Coast. As he struggles to reconcile his country’s betrayal with his passionate belief in the US Constitution, Gordon begins a 50-year journey toward a greater understanding of America’s triumphs - and a confrontation with its failures.

Includes an interview with playwright Jeanne Sakata.

Hold These Truths is sponsored in part by the California Civil Liberties Program from the California State Library.

Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood, in December 2018.

Directed by Jessica Kubzansky
Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg

Ryun Yu as Gordon Hirabayashi
Matthew Floyd Miller as Additional voices
Suzy Nakamura as Additional voices
Matt Walker as Additional voices
Greg Watanabe as Additional voices

1 hr and 44 mins