‘Letters To Sala’ At WCHS This Weekend
October 18, 2018 at 9:43 p.m.
‘Letters To Sala’ At WCHS This Weekend
By David [email protected]
Warsaw Community High School Select Theatre is performing “Letters to Sala” at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday in the school’s black box theater. All tickets are $6 with proceeds benefitting Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Director Dana McAfee said, “It’s a true story about a woman, Sala. She survives several labor camps during World War II and she hid all the letters that she received, which you’re not allowed to keep them, you have to get rid of the letters. But she hid them all and saved them, over 350 letters during the seven labor camps she was in.”
She said the play shifts back and forth from World War II to modern day.
In the modern day scenes, Sala finally tells her daughter about the letters. The daughter wants to put the letters in a museum while the granddaughters want to save them because they’re a part of her.
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“So they have this argument about what’s going to happen (with the letters), and it keeps going back and forth between the past and what’s happening in those scenes, and the present with what they’re trying to decide to do with those letters,” McAfee said. “They eventually are given to the New York Public Library. They are really there, like right now, those letters,” she said.
“Letters to Sala” is by Arlene Hutton.
Cast, in order of appearance, includes NaevEnya Moore as Sala; Katie Lauck as Ann; Anna Wainscott, Caroline; Chloe Hoskins, Elisabeth; Cassidy Neubaum as young Sala; Michelle Apeland as Chana/Rachel; Kyleigh Herring, Raizel; Sophia Schlitt as Blima/Rozia/Gucia; Addison Marshall as Laya Dina/Frymka; Deanna Folsom, Bela/Elfriede; Katie Jones as Sara/Lucia/Zusi; Abigail Seese as Ala Gertner; Payne Rager as Chaim Kaufman/guard; Joshua Fisher as Harry Haubenstock/guard; William Robison as Herbert Pache/guard; and Luke Howard as Sidney Kirschner.
Stage crew includes Neeley Belles, Ben Edwards and Nate Pollnow, with help from Tyler McClone and Danie Miner.
Warsaw Community High School Select Theatre is performing “Letters to Sala” at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday in the school’s black box theater. All tickets are $6 with proceeds benefitting Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Director Dana McAfee said, “It’s a true story about a woman, Sala. She survives several labor camps during World War II and she hid all the letters that she received, which you’re not allowed to keep them, you have to get rid of the letters. But she hid them all and saved them, over 350 letters during the seven labor camps she was in.”
She said the play shifts back and forth from World War II to modern day.
In the modern day scenes, Sala finally tells her daughter about the letters. The daughter wants to put the letters in a museum while the granddaughters want to save them because they’re a part of her.
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“So they have this argument about what’s going to happen (with the letters), and it keeps going back and forth between the past and what’s happening in those scenes, and the present with what they’re trying to decide to do with those letters,” McAfee said. “They eventually are given to the New York Public Library. They are really there, like right now, those letters,” she said.
“Letters to Sala” is by Arlene Hutton.
Cast, in order of appearance, includes NaevEnya Moore as Sala; Katie Lauck as Ann; Anna Wainscott, Caroline; Chloe Hoskins, Elisabeth; Cassidy Neubaum as young Sala; Michelle Apeland as Chana/Rachel; Kyleigh Herring, Raizel; Sophia Schlitt as Blima/Rozia/Gucia; Addison Marshall as Laya Dina/Frymka; Deanna Folsom, Bela/Elfriede; Katie Jones as Sara/Lucia/Zusi; Abigail Seese as Ala Gertner; Payne Rager as Chaim Kaufman/guard; Joshua Fisher as Harry Haubenstock/guard; William Robison as Herbert Pache/guard; and Luke Howard as Sidney Kirschner.
Stage crew includes Neeley Belles, Ben Edwards and Nate Pollnow, with help from Tyler McClone and Danie Miner.
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