Malek Sidani, Reporter
@mmscourant
The fall play, Letters to Sala, opens at 7pm this Thursday, November 15, with additional performances Friday and Saturday night in the auditorium. Tickets are available online at https://tickets.vendini.com/ticket-software.
According to Senior Lucy Coutts, who plays young Sala, the play is a story with two timelines. Letters to Sala goes back and forth between a small girl named Sala in a Nazi labor camp in Poland, and Sala as a grown woman. Sala not only kept a diary, but received letters from family and friends during her horrible experience in the camp which she has hidden for years. She finally decides to share the letters with her grown daughter, who has always wondered what these letters contained and why her mother was so secretive about them.
When the letters are read, the play flashes back to the camp. Sala’s daughter is very conflicted in this play, because while she wants to share these letters with the world, her own daughters think they should be kept for the family only.
Letters to Sala forms a tight bond with the audience by making an awful tragedy feel personal. “There are lot of things that happen to Sala that the audience can connect with, and it’ll also help them understand what people went through,” said Lucy.
The dark theme of Letters to Sala and all the horrific details really help the play come to life. “I think a huge thing with this show is to just kind of recognize the severity and importance of the Holocaust because everybody knows about it and knows that it happened, but they don’t really understand it,” said Lucy.
