Thousand Years Waiting and Other PlaysThe seven plays that comprise Chiori Miyagawas 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 createsthey 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 outsidersemotionally (as in Awakening), physically (as in Comet