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by LINDSAY DIEDRICH
Intern Lifestyles Reporter
“A Shayna Maidel,” Yiddish for “a pretty girl,” is about more than aesthetics, but rather the beauty of family and humanity.
The play, presented by The Department of Theater and Dance, opens tomorrow night at 7 p.m. in Valborg
Theater and runs through Oct. 5.
Sunday’s show will begin at 2 p.m.
Tickets are $6 for students and $10 for guests.
“The play is about understanding the breadth of love and the capacity of healing that we have,” director Teresa E. Lee said.
Although the play is a Holocaust play, audiences should expect a different outlook.
“This
show is different than a lot of shows I’ve read that are about the
Holocaust,” sophomore theater performance and third world studies
major, Maggie N. Sanders said. “It’s about what happened after the
Holocaust, directly after when those who had gotten out got to meet
those who had to stay.”
Audience members are advised to come with an open heart.
“… Come
with an open heart and see a play that’s about humanity, a play that’s
about our humanness, in a way,” Lee said. “Audiences should expect a
love story, but not in the romantic sense.”
Although the play is about family, it is not meant to lessen the severity of the Holocaust.
“I don’t
mean to trivialize or downplay the Holocaust,” Lee said. “This play is
a family drama, about a family reuniting after a catastrophic event.”
Communication and language are a central focus of the play.
“It’s
about trying to communicate with one another and to try to heal a lot
of things that, you know, a lot of feelings, a lot of complex emotions
that have gone on,” Lee said.
The play is set immediately after World War II.
“This
play is set in March of 1946, which is less than a year after the
surrender of Germany and the surrender of Japan, at the end of World
War Two,” dramaturge for the play, alumnae and graduate student in the
department of history, Megan E. Maubry said.
Most people do not know the extent of the Holocaust during the time period in which the play is set, Maubry said.
“We don’t know how many people were involved all they know is that their family was involved,” Maubry said.
“A Shayna Maidel” uses a catastrophic event to illustrate the complexities of family.
“The
family is dealing with the loss of other family members, and
reuniting,” Maubry said. “This is a play about a family and most people
have had ups and downs with their family, there’s funny parts and
there’s serious parts. There’s a lot of entertaining factors in this
show.”
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