<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:
&quot;Sitka Heading&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:
&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café that 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-traveling offer, 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…</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Sitka Heading&quot;;
mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">About
the Author</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Sitka Heading&quot;;
mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">Toshikazu
Kawaguchi </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:
&quot;Sitka Heading&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:
&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">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 an 1110 Productions play by Kawaguchi,
 which won the
10th Suginami Drama Festival grand prize.</span></p>

