Introduction by Emily Itami This play begins, as so many Japanese summers do, with cicadas humming endlessly and the smell of the sea pushing through a half-open door. But beneath all that noise, there’s something else—silence. The kind of silence that grows between sisters when grief is too heavy to talk about, or when anger has been folded away so many … [Read more...] about Kakigori Summer: A Family Drama of Silence and Healing