Enola
by Al Smith
At 08.16 on the 6th August, 1945, the Enola Gay, cruising at 26,000 feet, dropped “Little Boy” on the waking population of Hiroshima. As dawn rose over Japan, 70,000 people were vaporised under the force of a thousand suns. Enola Gay shares her name with the plane which dropped the bomb. Enola explores the relationship between nuclear suburbia, geometry, and the distance we perceive ourselves from Hiroshima.
August 2005
Underbelly, Edinburgh Festival Fringe / The Arches
★★★★★ Three Weeks, Edinburgh Guide
‘You’ll be hard put to find a more powerful piece of festival fringe theatre’
★★★★ The Herald
★★★★ Daily Mail
Winner: Sunday Times Playwrighting Award
Cast:
Ellie Bruce
James Yeatman
Tom Ferguson
Al Smith
Lewis Young
Crew:
Director: Al Smith
Producer: Oscar Mathew & Idil Sukan
Technical Director: Neil E. Hobbs & David Reed
Stage Manager: Alex Robertson
