NEWS…we’ll be taking off to the U.S. in April for a short tour of my play THE MISTAKE, in the 80th anniversary year of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The U.S. spring dates will culminate in a three week run off-Broadway, New York City, April 24th-May 11th – just when, by coincidence, the next session of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty discussions will be taking place in the city.

 Photo by SIMON RICHARDSON

Performing THE MISTAKE in the States fills me with a certain trepidation…but excitement too. The play is a corrective to the OPPENHEIMER film blockbuster, which failed to reference the Japanese experience on the ground at all. Whereas Riko Nakazono in THE MISTAKE, portraying an atomic bomb survivor searching for her parents, brings the full magnitude of the catastrophe home to audiences. (In Edinburgh and in London, Emiko Ishii brilliantly created the role.) I will be reprising my roles as the maverick Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard and the pilot of the Enola Gay, Colonel Paul Tibbets. Money and funding are an issue as ever – so I will probably reach out with one more crowdfunding appeal in the New Year…

Photo of RIKO NAKAZONO in THE MISTAKE by SIMON RICHARDSON

Other USA dates include MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY, INDIANA, April 8th (time tbc) and NOTRE DAME UNIVERSITY, INDIANA, Sunday April 13th at 4pm. For more info/dates do check here… Tour Dates for THE MISTAKE in 2025, the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.