"I wrote it from a standpoint of an actor. Some playwrights, they forget about the actor and they write impossible things, you know, so that you're forced to change your costume in a second -- [laughs] -- because the playwright never thought of that. But as an actor, you think of those things, and I thought I wrote it from the actor's point of view because I also acted in the play, and that's a hard thing to do; to act, concentrate on one part when you, you've written the whole, other parts…"
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Poets from the United StatesPlaywrights from the United StatesActors from CaliforniaJapanese Americans
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On writing his first play from the viewpoint of an actor in “Hiroshi Kashiwagi Interview” (Densho Digital Archive; 2004 Jul 3)
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Hiroshi Kashiwagi
Hiroshi Kashiwagi (November 8, 1922–October 29, 2019) was a Nisei (second-generation Japanese American) poet, playwright and actor.
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