I Wasn and Father

son: Come on, Dad, replies the son, according to Globe and Mail. Do you really think this is a living This is theatre. My son makes fun of my accent for a living, says the father. Shigematsu generally avoids a straightforward narrative telling of either his life or his father's we get it all in fragments that jump back and forth in time. I wasn't devastated, his mother says, when Tetsuro asks what she felt about the unexpected pregnancy. He describes Akira Shigematsu as a Forrest Gump figure his career, first with the BBC World Service, leading him to have tea with the Queen, then to be on hand when Marilyn Monroe sang Happy Birthday to JFK and eventually to bring his family to Canada when Britain proved too expensive with the birth of Tetsuro and his twin sister. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.