The Priest’s tale

A one-man play written and performed by Michael Mears which tells the riveting story of a Hiroshima survivor, Jesuit priest Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge, and involves a miraculous suitcase, a daring escape and the devastation wreaked on a city in a single instant by a nuclear bomb. It is a clear-eyed depiction of the pity of the war and of the terror wrought at the start of our nuclear age, told with compassion, warmth and flashes of humour.