I Never Saw Another Butterfly
Written by Celeste Raspanti
Directed by Kyla Surtees 1999
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The Cast
Amy Dettling ........... Raja Englandrova
Chris Woods ....…...... Honza
Ian Kent ….................... Pavel
Mareike Heyde …...... Irca
Hilary Benesh ........… Child 1
Ariel Nyquist …........... Child 2
Erica Borgstrom ….... Child 3
Matt Van Boeyen ..... Child 4
Vic Van Boeyn …......... Rabbi
Taryn Chisholm …...... Erika
Angela Saufert …........ Renka
Shannon Conner ....... Aunt Vera
Lorna Kent …................ Mother
Alexander Gilmore … Father
Nathalie Watwood … Irena Synkova
The Crew
Meghan Jensen …........ Stage Manager
Kyla Surtees …............... Set Design
Assistant Stage Manager … Greg Nyquist
Bob White .....................… Sound
Brock Nyquist …............. Lights
Kyla & Meghan, Jerry Woods,
Beth & Bowmar ….......... Set construction
Adam, Brian & Miles ..... Guards
Colin Baldwin of Executive Styles …. Hair
Craig Farish ….................... the Butterfly Slides
About
World War 2. Over 15,000 Jewish children passed through Terezin Concentration Camp (Czechoslovakia), and only about one hundred were still alive when Terezin was liberated at the end of the war. One of the survivors, Raja, having lived through it all, teaching the children when there was nothing to teach with, helping to give them hope when there was little enough reason for hope, creating a little world of laughter, of flowers and butterflies behind the barbed wire, tells the true story of the children. It's her play and it's theirs. There were no butterflies at Terezin, of course, but for the children, butterflies became a symbol of defiance, making it possible for them to live on and play happily while waiting to be transported.
