OUR STORIES NEED TO BE TOLD, Interview with the Actors

This coming Friday, March 13 and for the next three weekends, The Theater Project will present a production unique to is almost fifty year history. ‘Our Stories Need to be Told’ are true accounts of Holocaust Survivors who found their way to Maine after World War II. Written and compiled by The Theater Project’s Executive Director Wendy Poole, these testimonies were provided by the Holocaust and Human Rights Center. In turn, The Theater Project has been working with the Brunswick Junior High School Eighth Graders who are studying the Holocaust.

As I am fortunate enough to be a part of this production, together with an amazing cast of young actors and some members of The Theater Project Professional Company, I am going to say as little as possible, and hope that the “Vlog” will speak for itself. A special thank you to Theater Project Board Member John Tower, for recording, editing and producing this piece for us. He suggested a portion of my remarks be included, I am transcribing a bit for the sake of context below:

“[I play] the interviewer in ‘Our Stories Need to be Told.’ I was so moved by [not only] what these people are telling, but as an ‘outsider,’ I didn’t have these experiences. It’s just an absolute joy to work on this, not only as an acting exercise, but as a human being - to find these stories of resilience and hope, also guilt and pain. … I think of how broken these people were but were [then] able to recover and move forward… with their experience still with them. … We as human beings are so good at destroying ourselves. It is so affirming working on this play, and I am very grateful Wendy asked me to be a part of it.”

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