On 11 March, 2011 a woman living in Hisanohama, a port town in Fukushima, Japan lost her husband when he was swept away by a tsunami. This intimate, documentary-style performance tells her story through her own words and voice. Or so it seems.

Kagerou – Study of Translating Performance interweaves sound recordings and video footage of Hisanohama, actors and simultaneous Japanese/English interpretation to create an immersive and uniquely powerful meditation on translation in the aftermath of Fukushima through the life and thoughts of a woman who still lives there.

Comparing the great distances between victim and actor, the English and Japanese language, and Fukushima and Melbourne, Hamanaka Company explore objectivity, pathos and sympathy to ask if we can feel intimacy with a tragedy that happened so far away, and what gets lost in the act of translation.