THE MISTAKE: MICHAEL MEARS
13 November 2021 2.30-4.30pm.
The Parish Church of St Cuthbert, 5 Lothian Road, Edinburgh, EH1 2EP
Free entry but registration required. Book at:
https://the-mistake-michael-mears.eventbrite.co.uk
A rehearsed live reading of a new play about the day the world changed forever by award-winning actor and playwright Michael Mears.
“The dropping of the first atomic bomb is referred to on the Peace Memorial in Hiroshima as ‘the mistake’. Using testimonies and eye-witness accounts, I wrote The Mistake interweaving the stories of a survivor, a scientist and a soldier to create a gripping drama – exploring what happens when scientific discoveries unlock the awesome power of nature, and ‘the genie is let out of the bottle’. Based on the personal experiences surrounding that catastrophic event and the lives of Shigeko Nomura – a young woman living in war-time Hiroshima; Leo Szilard – a Hungarian scientist and ‘father of the atomic bomb’ and Paul Tibbets – the American pilot chosen to fly the plane that drops the bomb. At 8.15am on a Monday morning in August, their lives become fatally and forever entangled.” Michael Mears
