God Bless Baseball

What does the sport of baseball mean to you? Two girls stand awkwardly on a baseball diamond with ill-fitting mitts and ask to learn the rules of the game. The rules are explained by a man who knows them well but can't stand the game, and in hyper-spiritual terms by another who think he's Ichiro Suzuki only he's not, but the girls frustrate their explanations to extreme degrees. Funny, awkward, painful, and both wide-ranging and very personal, God Bless Baseball reveals how deeply rooted the iconic American game is in everyday life in Japan and Korea, from the highest echelons of political power down into the most intimate family recollections.

Playwright and director Toshiki Okada takes on the peculiar idiosyncrasies and anxieties of contemporary life, and expands them with unique choreography based on exaggerated everyday gestures. God Bless Baseball is performed by Japanese actors who play Korean roles (in Japanese), and Korean actors who play Japanese roles (in Korean).

In Japanese and Korean with English supertitles.

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