Youth Theatre Northwest on Mercer Island will present four performances of “A Story of Sadako,” written and directed by Mimi Katano, from May 30 to June 7.

The story is the account of Sadako Sasaki, the most well-known victim of the Hiroshima bombing, who, at the time of the bomb, was unharmed, but 10 years later developed leukemia. In hopes to be cured, Sadako folded over 1,300 origami cranes, but succumbed to her illness and died at age 12. In this 2025 remount, Katano has reworked the script into a one-act play done in a “choral reading” style. The actors will tell the story using narration and dialogue.

Katano has also reworked the script to include more of her native Japanese language because of the eight actors in the show, three are fluent in Japanese and two have a working knowle

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