Midlothian High School Theater presents "Dear Finder"

The Theatre Department of Midlothian High School is proud to begin our 2010-2011 Season with Dear Finder An Original Play created by Tom Isbell and Valerie Buel, Denise Dawson, Jamison Haase, Kourtney Kass, Julie MacIver, Andrew Nelson & Julie Unulock University of Minnesota Duluth, 1998, Kennedy Center 1999 10th Year Anniversary Production 2008 Based in part on materials from The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and its corresponding book, The World Must Know by Michael Berenbaum

Dear Finder is…..difficult to describe.
It is a living documentary about the Holocaust.

Six million…twelve million dead…statistics don’t tell the story.
Dear Finder puts a face on a dark time in human history….
Faces of people who lived it.

Unblinking and compelling….
Meant for an audience that doesn’t have to be presented with fiction… to feel.

The play begins and ends with a milk can full of diaries, letters, pictures and documents buried beneath the Warsaw Ghetto by members of the Oneg Shabbat.

One of the letters begins, Dear Finder….
“What we were unable to cry and scream out to the world, we buried in the ground.
May the treasure fall into good hands. May it alarm and alert the world to what happened and was played out in the twentieth century.”
Last will and testament of Dawid Graber, aged 19.

Above the flame…
in the Hall of Remembrance of the Holocaust Memorial Museum in DC are these words, “Only guard yourself and guard your soul carefully, lest you forget the things your eyes saw, and lest these things depart your heart all the days of your life.
And you shall make them known to your children and to your children’s children.” Deuteronomy 4:9

We are voices of those who can no longer speak.

Come and hear their stories.
Nov. 18, 19 and 20, 7:30 pm
Admission $10
Thursday special: all tickets $5

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“The intention of the play is to create a theater piece that does for a theater audience what the Holocaust Museum in Washington does for the museum going audience - which is to say, cover a number of stories and give an overview and also make connections to the present day.

We tried to cover the stories that we thought were important in conveying the overall sense of the event.”
-Tom Isbell