{"id":5739,"date":"2019-05-23T16:17:37","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T20:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.playwrights.ca\/?p=5739"},"modified":"2019-11-19T10:14:48","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T15:14:48","slug":"4-questions-with-julie-tamiko-manning-on-the-2019-gros-morne-playwrights-residency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.playwrights.ca\/fr\/2019\/05\/23\/4-questions-with-julie-tamiko-manning-on-the-2019-gros-morne-playwrights-residency\/","title":{"rendered":"4 questions with Julie Tamiko Manning on Gros Morne Playwrights\u2019 Residency"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Harris Frost<\/p>\n

Lire la page en fran\u00e7ais<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

The 2019 Gros Morne Playwrights\u2019 Residency in Newfoundland<\/a><\/span> headed by PWM and Le Centre des Auteurs Dramatiques (CEAD) wrapped up last month. Montreal-based playwright and actor Julie Tamiko Manning was one of this year\u2019s 7 participants.<\/span><\/h4>\n

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PWM:<\/strong> How exactly were the 10 days structured?<\/p>\n

Julie Tamiko: <\/strong>Most of the 10 days we pretty much had to ourselves to do whatever we wanted. Then in the evenings, we had an hour-long meeting all together with all the other playwrights. We each got the chance to either do a little reading of our what we\u2019re working on or talk about our process during one of these meetings.<\/p>\n

PWM:<\/strong> Did it feel a little strange to be with so many other playwrights while you\u2019re working individually?<\/p>\n

Julie Tamiko: <\/strong>Well, even though we weren\u2019t in the same space all day, I think the fact that we were all there to do the same thing was kind of a uniting thing. You would ask \u201cHow\u2019s your writing going today?\u201d<\/em> and someone would answer \u201cTerrible!\u201d<\/em> or \u201cIt\u2019s a good day, today!\u201d<\/em> and you would know what that meant because you\u2019d probably gone through the exact same thing the day before.<\/p>\n

PWM: <\/strong>Could you speak a little about your piece, Mizush\u014dbai<\/span>?<\/p>\n

Julie Tamiko: <\/strong>It\u2019s a commission by Tableau D\u2019H\u00f4te Theatre, the first play in what is to become an annual series called More Than a Footnote<\/em> about Canadian figures who have been sort of lost to history, who don\u2019t have as much written about them as other historical figures.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s called Mizush\u014dbai, which literally translates from Japanese as \u201cthe water trade\u201d, it\u2019s a euphemistic term that means \u201cnight-time entertainment\u201d, as in, the sex industry. It\u2019s about the life of this woman Kiyoko Tanaka Goto who came from Japan to Canada as a picture bride in 1916, did years of manual labour, saved up her money and opened a restaurant with 3 other women where they would make and sell alcohol. Then later she bought a hotel and turned it into a brothel. In 1942, she was interned with other Japanese Canadians. After internment, I believe she pretended to be Chinese in order to go back to the West coast, because the Japanese weren\u2019t allowed back to the coast until 1949. She opened up a few gambling clubs in Chinatown. She died in 1982.<\/p>\n

When I started writing this play about her I was having trouble figuring out how I was going to write a biography without it being a straight biography, I didn\u2019t want to just transcribe the oral interview I have been working from, so I started out with a lot of disjointed poetry because there\u2019s not a whole lot of information about her. And it was kind of a struggle to figure out how to stick with the facts of her life as well as figure out the rest through me. I was surprised because I went to the residency with ten or fifteen pages and I ended up with almost a whole first draft. And I almost didn\u2019t realize that I had written it while I was there.<\/p>\n

PWM:<\/strong> During the residency, did find that your writing process was different from usual?<\/p>\n

Julie Tamiko: <\/strong>It was so amazing to be able to have every day to write. I had really made sure that I cleared my schedule so that I could think about writing. I actually really surprised myself because in a day I would do anywhere between one and six hours of writing but by the end of the residency, I was surprised to see just how much I had written. I think it would have taken me about six months to do what I did in ten days at this residency.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s going to take a long time for me to actually finish the draft though, because I won\u2019t have the time that I had while at the residency. I\u2019m going to have to try to recreate that somehow.<\/p>\n

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Julie will perform her show The Tashme Project – co-created with Matt Miwa – at the Great Canadian Theatre Company in Ottawa as part of the 2019 Prismatic Arts Festival in September.<\/em><\/p>\n

Photo (Top to bottom): Royds Fuentes-Imbert, Emma Tibaldo, Robert Chafe, Paul Lefebvre, Julie Tamiko Manning, and Yolanda Bonnell<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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