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.
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
Location
Edinburgh Quaker Meeting House
7 Victoria Terrace
Edinburgh
EH1 2JL
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