The Play is coming to WGC to help us to remember the life of Anne Frank through the eyes of her step sister Eva Schloss. Eva, 84, along with director Nic Careem have been touring the country since 2000 with the travelling play in order to “remind people to stand up against hate”. The play uses audio-visual footage of Holocaust survivors joint with the moving performances of the live actors of which many have personal connections to the Holocaust. One of the recent cast member’s grandfather was a soldier who was killed in a concentration camp for helping Jewish people. Others are simply passionate about portraying the message of “hatred is everywhere, and anywhere, and that’s what we need to get rid of because it’s a horrible, horrible thing”.
The play shows Eva’s and Anne’s story and is a fantastically moving performance helping to show everyone what really happened, as 1940’s Europe is dramatically brought to WGC.
The play will be running with two performances on Thursday 17th October at Woodhall Community Centre in WGC including a Question & Answer session with Eva and local MP Grant Shapps after the performances. One of these is a free matinee for school children with the second show an evening performance starting at 7pm. For this performance tickets will be £10 Adult and £5 Child/Concession. To purchase tickets contact the organisers, Welwyn Hatfield Conservative Association, on 01707 262632 or email [email protected].
Local MP Grant Shapps said: “This is an opportunity for us to learn about the Holocaust which teaches us about tolerance today with the first-hand evidence and testimony of a Holocaust survivor. We are so lucky to have Eva Schloss come and visit us to tell us her story in a way people can really understand. I was honoured to have visited Auschwitz with Bishops School, Hatfield, and I’m sure that both the memories of that visit and this performance will help remind me how important it is to remember and learn”