Barbara Campbell

Zero Hour is a contemporary reconstruction of a 1944 broadcast of the same name. The original program was produced by Radio Tokyo and intended as a propaganda program for allied troops in the Pacific. This audience heard popular music and the voice of a female announcer named Iva Toguri, an American citizen and one of several women dubbed Tokyo Rose by the troops.

Contempoary audiences at the Domain Theatre (and on radio) were asked to imagine themselves as expectant listeners in the Pacific Ocean. The persona of Tokyo Rose was diffused by multiple female voices mediated by a range of audio technologies and historical filters.