the gunman and his victims had no known connection.

Rafu: Where were your parents incarcerated? Did they tell you about it when you were growing up or did you learn about it as an adult? How has this knowledge affected you?Kondo: Seamless is based loosely on my own and my familys histories and on interviews with my parents.or has there still been a tendency not to talk about it?Kondo: Without doing an empirical study — I am a cultural anthropologist by training — I cannot answer this with anything but anecdotal evidence.

When I have publicly lost composure.Seamless illuminates the lingering impact of an episode of American history that remains too little-known.A play about history and memory.

What traces do these traumatic experiences deposit in subsequent generations.Kathleen Goto about her parents’ incarceration during WWII.

SANTA MONICA —Seamless.

and Discourses of Identity in a Japanese Workplace; About Face: Performing Race in Fashion and Theater; and the recent Worldmaking: Race.the Japanese American National Museum.

soldiers of World War II—the 100th Infantry Battalion.More details about the show are available at http://DefiningCourageShow.

while their families were incarcerated in Americas concentration camps.22 performances of Defining Courage are presented by Story Boldly.