'Scored in Silence'
'Scored in Silence' is a solo sign language performance by London-based Deaf Japanese artist Chisato Minamimura. The show unpacks the hidden perspectives of Deaf people from the small number that survived the horrors of the atomic bomb atrocity in Japan in 1945.
Survivors of the A-bomb are known as “hibakusha,” and Scored in Silence is based on a period of research, interviews and original films of elderly Deaf people with lived experiences of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Minamimura brings these untold narratives into stark relief, touching upon the atrocity of the event and its aftermath, including the layers of discrimination experienced by these isolated members of Japanese society.
Survivors of the A-bomb are known as “hibakusha,” and Scored in Silence is based on a period of research, interviews and original films of elderly Deaf people with lived experiences of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Minamimura brings these untold narratives into stark relief, touching upon the atrocity of the event and its aftermath, including the layers of discrimination experienced by these isolated members of Japanese society.
OPEN THE DOOR International Festival, 07-15.06.2025
OPEN THE DOOR International Festival is one of the most unique festivals in southern Poland. It is open to various theatre forms, showing its diversity – modern, experimental and traditional styles and various genres. Apart from the artistic values the festival has an important social dimension. It gives voice to people whose problems and issues we often tend to ignore. It is an inclusive event, the programme includes works of artists with disabilities, and artists from disadvantaged social groups. We show projects raising important social questions, events open to the audience that may not have much prior theatre experience, we open the theatre door and organise outdoor projects in order to reach new “non-theatre” people.
OTD Festival is an annual project, from the year 2021 organised in June (before it was happening in September). The festival programme so far have included performances and projects created by artists from France, Spain, Mexico, Great Britain, the Czech Republic, Israel, Belarus, Ukraine, Chile, Kosovo, Italy, Belgium, Iceland, Peru, and of course Poland.