A play by Roi Rashkes Directed by: Roy Horovitz Music by: Shmulik Noifeld Set: Alexandra Nardi Costumes: Liron Minkin Lighting: Meir Alon Cast: Yonit Toby, Davit Gavish, Eyal Rozales, Nadav Nir In this new original play, we follow the life and death of Sadako Sasaki- a Japanese girl from the city of Hiroshima. 70 years ago, at the end of the Second World War, in 1945, the A-bomb hit Hiroshima. 118,613 people died, many more were severely injured. Sadako was just a baby and she died of leukemia nine years later, in 1954, at the age of 11. Throughout her short life, Sadako was a cheerful and sporty girl. She loved to run. She liked to feel the wind caressing her face, and go through her hair. She loved to gaze at the passing scenery. She ran from morning to night, stressing her father who begged her to sit and relax... During her hospitalization, Sadako folded paper cranes (as part of the well-known Japanese art of Origami), believing that if she would be able to fold 1000 paper cranes, she would heal and recover. Until her death, Sadako managed to fold over 600 paper cranes, and her classmates completed, after her death, folding up to 1000. Sadako's Coping with leukemia inspired not only her loved ones, but residents of Japan, and people around the world, ever since. She taught all her loved ones how to die, and more than that - she taught us how to live today. At the Memorial site for victims of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima stands the statue of the little Sadako, and above her a crane takes off to the sky, a symbol of hope for a better world and a different future for men and women of generations to come. Like with the famous story of Anne Frank, here too we deal with the life of a young girl, trying to digest the enormity and audacity of history, and in both cases we focus on life rather than death. Unexpectedly, "Sadako's Paper Cranes" is an upbeat presentation full of joy and hope, just as Sadako was herself in her own short life. This is the spirit of Sadako, and in this spirit we created our production.

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