Oyakoshinju: Deathbond Audiobook

A young divorcee named Keiko moves from Hiroshima to America to start a new life with her ambitious husband. But when he takes a mistress and leaves her, Keiko takes drastic and irreversible actions to preserve her dignity and that of her children.

An LA Theatre Works full-cast recording featuring Shuko Akune, Jusak Bernhard, Takayo Fischer, Robert Ito, Peter Jacobs, Robin Goodrin Nordli, Yuji Okumoto, Randy Tanizawa, and Shari Tanizawa, directed by Peggy Shannon, and recorded before a live audience.

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“TV veterans Shuko Akune (Scandal) and Robert Ito (Quincy, M.E.) lead a superb group of Asian–American actors in this sharp, poetic, devastating examination of the culture clash that a young, divorced Japanese woman experiences…Akune is especially good at discovering the vocal freshness and wry humor in young Keiko’s monologues as she learns English by watching television and wraps herself in the laughter and love of her two small children…This production, which captures the play’s 1991 world premiere, deserves to be heard again.”

— AudioFile