The seven plays that comprise Chiori Miyagawa s "Thousand Years Waiting and Other Plays "explore themes of memory and identity.Her plays combine poetic language with harsh reality, and time and space are fluid in the worlds she creates they converge and separate while the characters inhabit many dimensions at once with ease.In one way or another, the heroes and heroines of these plays are outsiders emotionally (as in "Awakening"), physically (as in "Comet Hunter") or socially (as in "Broken Morning"), and the line that separates life and death is thin.""In the title play, a woman in New...