“[Forgiveness is] blessed with some remarkable performances. It’s hard to believe that [Jeff] Lillico played the broadly comic rock-star-like Shakespeare in Something Rotten! last season. The role of Ralph requires him to traverse a punishing emotional and physical arc and he hits all the notes.
[Yoshie] Bancroft is endearing as Mitsue as she navigates girlhood, the harshness of the war years, and the challenges of raising two very Canadian boys.
Michael Man turns in another rock solid performance as Hideo, Mitsue’s husband. Playwright [Hiro] Kanagawa takes on two roles. As Kato, the sadistic but philosophically conflicted commandant of Ralph’s POW camp, he is chilling.”