Competition One Act
I Never Saw Another Butterfly by Celeste Raspanti
From 1942 to 1945, over 15,000 Jewish children passed through Terezin, a stopping-off place, for hundreds of thousands on their way to the gas chambers of Auschwitz. Most of these perished at Auschwitz. But one child, Raja Englanderova, after the liberation, returned to Prague. This play is an imaginative creation of her story from poems, diaries, letters, journals, drawings, and pictures.
Raja finds herself alone, everyone she ever loved dying, but we see her persevere despite that. Butterflies resemble hope and rebirth, which is exactly what Raja's story represents.
