Sakura spreading the message of peace

Remembering the nuclear holocaust that shook

Japan

during the World War II, Japanese play, '

Sakura

' was staged as part of the ongoing 8th Theatre Olympics organised by

National School of Drama

under the aegis of

Ministry of Culture

, in Banaras, recently. Beautifully capturing the pervading melancholy as a consequence of nuclear bombing of

Hiroshima

and Nagasaki, the play also had a message of universal peace.

Director and performer

Keiin Yoshimura

in a scene from the play (BCCL)

Director and performer of the play, Keiin Yoshimura, says, "The play is based on the poem Genbaku-Shishu written by Japanese poet

Sankichi Toghe

, who was a survivor of the atomic attack. Even after 70 years of attack, there is still a need to remember the tragedy which struck Japan, since world peace is still the demand of the present times. There is so much strife in the world, through this play we intend to spread the message of peace."