"If the victims have no real identity, it is easier to create a scheme. To draw a picture based on the classic comparison between the good citizen 'faceless victim' and the bad aggressor who does have a face." (Murakami, Underground)

 

3 November is a three-voice female monologue written to be performed by a single woman. Two characters in the mirror linked to the narrated event: a terrorist attack inside a train. The first woman is a former adept of a religious sect, a sect that provoked the attack. The second woman is a young mother, now widowed, who lost her husband in the same bombing.

3 November is about a true story, inspired by the terrorist attack on the Tokyo underground on 20 March 1995. However, it is not an investigative show as the facts are filtered through humanity and the point of view of the two women. Love, abandonment, faith, doubt, all these things are investigated in their occurrence by the characters themselves, who look at their past for the first time with the exhilaration of when you understand something about yourself.

Discovering that they still know how to cry or laugh then become, in the intimate microcosm that the audience is called upon to explore, revolutionary events, capable of restarting two lives that have remained suspended.