“Hate, ignorance, fear, prejudice, and inhumanity… a rallying cry for our own times”
“The U.S. recently marked the 75th anniversary of Executive Order 9066, which led to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. However much we might wish to close that disgraceful chapter, TheatreWorks’ production of “Hold These Truths” only makes clear that the hate, ignorance, fear, prejudice and inhumanity of 1942 are still ours in 2018.
Jeanne Sakata’s one-man play, which opened Saturday, July 14, at Lucie Stern Theatre, follows the extraordinary story of Gordon Hirabayashi (Joel de la Fuente), a nisei college student who fought his internment from his campus to the Supreme Court and was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom…
A master storyteller, Joel de la Fuente delivers each line as if he can’t wait to share it with us, which endows even Gordon’s lowest moments with springy, propulsive vigor. Directed by Lisa Rothe, he can will a whole world or character into being on a spare stage with one crisply defined gesture... A rallying cry for our own times...”
San Francisco Chronicle
Lily Janiak
