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Article: Echo of an earthquake: Haruki Murakami's enigmatic stories of super-frogs and lost souls live an alternate life in the theatre.(CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK)(After the Quake)(Theater review)
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- American Theatre
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- February 1, 2006
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Sitting in the darkened hall and listening to the lines of Steppenwolf Theatre Company's adaptation of Haruki Murakami's short-story collection after the quake, I had a thrill unavailable to anyone else in the audience--even to Murakami himself, had he been there (which may never happen)--because I was the one who wrote the very lines the actors were speaking.
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True, Murakami was the author of the original work I had translated, but those were my words. When, in the well-attended post-performance discussion, a member of the staff assured the audience of the fidelity of the adaptation by noting that "99 percent of the words you ...