BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD
What would you change if you could go back in time?
In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time.
In Before the Coffee Gets Cold, we meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping to make use of the café's time-travelling offer, in order to: confront the man who left them, receive a letter from their husband whose memory has been taken by early onset Alzheimer's, to see their sister one last time, and to meet the daughter they never got the chance to know.
But the journey into the past does not come without risks: customers must sit in a particular seat, they cannot leave the café, and finally, they must return to the present before the coffee gets cold . . .
Toshikazu Kawaguchi's beautiful, moving story explores the age-old question: what would you change if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time?
TOSHIKAZU KAWAGUCHI
Toshikazu Kawaguchi in Japanese: ?? ? ? was born in Osaka, Japan, in 1971. He formerly produced, directed and wrote for the theatrical group Sonic Snail. As a playwright, his works include COUPLE, Sunset Song, and Family Time. The novel Before the Coffee Gets Cold is adapted from a 1110 Productions play by Kawaguchi, which won the 10th Suginami Drama Festival grand prize.
Edad: adultos
KAWAGUCHI TOSHIKAZU
Toshikazu Kawaguchi nació en Osaka, Japón, en 1971. Ha sido productor, director y escritor para el grupo de teatro Sonic Snail. Como guionista, sus trabajos más importantes incluyen COUPLE , Sunset Song y Family Time . Antes de que se enfríe el café, su debut como novelista, está basada en la obra teatral homónima que recibió el primer premio en el festival de drama de Suginami y cuenta con una exitosa adaptación cinematográfica en su país, donde ya se ha publicado la secuela. No solo se han vendido más de un millón de ejemplares del libro en Japón, sino que también se ha ganado el favor de legiones de lectores europeos y ha encabezado las listas de best sellers de Italia.
