Come along to this live performance for an evening remembering the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Newly revised and staged for live performance, ‘The Priest’s Tale’ by actor/playwright Michael Mears is his adaptation of one of the atomic bomb survivors’ accounts from John Hersey’s remarkable 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 pity of war… and of the terror wrought at the start of our nuclear age.
Live musical accompaniment will be provided by London-based Japanese violinist Chihiro Ono. The performance will be followed by a Q&A session and a talk from guest speaker Antony Owen, one of the leading writers of war and peace poetry active today.
This event is supported by CND, with all donations being shared by Sands Films and CND.