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Both Eyes Open is a new chamber opera by Brooklyn-based composer Max Giteck Duykers and Bay Area playwright Philip Kan Gotanda. This work explores the scarring that Japanese Americans experienced during World War II and suggests paths toward healing. 

“Both Eyes Open recasts the incarceration of Japanese Americans to show us disturbing truths about America then and America now," says Gotanda. "In this exciting, experimental opera, we mash up the lyrical with the raucous; an ambitious aesthetic with vaudevillian lowbrow humor.” 

Presented by New Performance Traditions with support from the UC Berkeley Division of Arts & Humanities and the California Civil Liberties Program.

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