The Priest's Tale, Michael Mears: Recalling Hiroshima

Thursday, 7 November 2024 - 6:30pm
Edinburgh Quaker Meeting House
Edinburgh

The riveting story of a miraculous suitcase, a daring escape and the devastation wreaked on a city in an instant by one bomb on 6 August 1945.

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Newly staged for live performance, THE PRIEST’S TALE by award-winning actor / playwright Michael Mears, is his solo adaptation of one of the atomic-bomb survivors’ accounts from John Hersey’s book ‘HIROSHIMA’.

Father Wilhelm was a German Jesuit priest living in Hiroshima, who survived the blast but witnessed much of the destruction.

THE PRIEST’S TALE is a clear-eyed depiction of the terror wrought at the start of our nuclear age … told with compassion, warmth and flashes of humour ...

‘An exceptional performance, incredible script.’ INDEPENDENT CATHOLIC NEWS

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Edinburgh Quaker Meeting House
7 Victoria Terrace
Edinburgh EH1 2JL ,