My friend Julia is directing a play this week and next week at The Brigham Young. It is based on the children's book
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes. It's an incredibly touching true story about a little girl in Japan after the Hiroshima bomb. I'm going on Saturday but I just wanted to give a shout out to anyone who might be interested in doing something different--I complain all the time that the only thing to do in The UC is dinner/movie--this is different. They preview it for two weeks at BYU and then take the play around to elementary schools in the area. I'm super excited for Julia and know it will be incredible. Follow the link for further details!
This is the description from the back of the book...
Hiroshima-born Sadako is lively and athletic--the star of her school's running team. And then the dizzy spells start. Soon gravely ill with leukemia, an aftereffect of the atom bomb that fell on her city when she was only an infant, Sadako approaches her illness as she did her running--with irrepressible spirit. Recalling a Japanese legend, Sadako sets to work folding paper cranes. For the legend holds that if a sick person folds one thousand cranes, the gods will grant her wish and make her healthy again.
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