Published Tuesday, April 29, 2008 4:56 PM
Updated Tuesday, April 29, 2008 4:57 PM
The Pinewood Preparatory School’s award winning drama department will be presenting, “I Never Saw Another Butterfly.” The cast is pictured in full dress.
Pinewood Drama Production Supports a Cause
The Pinewood Preparatory School’s award winning drama department will be presenting, “I Never Saw Another Butterfly.” The drama, written by Celeste Raspanti and produced by special arrangement with the Dramatic Publishing Company, is the story of one of the 15,000 children who passed through Terezin, a military garrison set up as a ghetto during World War II, a stopping-off place on the way to the gas chambers in Auschwitz. This sensitive and life-affirming play is based on collected poems and drawings by those children, which were recovered and published in a book by the same name.
The students and Drama Director, Shannon Horn, have chosen to have fifty percent of the $5 admission fees go directly to The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Located in Washington, D.C., The Museum is America's national institution for the documentation, study, and interpretation of Holocaust history.
Since opening in 1993, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has welcomed more than 25 million visitors from all walks of life and reached millions more through a growing range of outreach programs- often conceived in response to public demand. The Museum has many resources for teachers striving to help students learn the history of the Holocaust and reflect on the moral and ethical questions raised by that history.
The production will take place May 2 and 3 at 7 p.m. and May 4 at 2 p.m. in Freedom Hall on the Pinewood Preparatory School campus at 1114 Orangeburg Road.