Prime Stage’s ‘I Never Saw Another Butterfly’ Onstage at New Hazlett (Fri., 2/28/25)

I NEVER SAW ANOTHER BUTTERFLY and THE TEREZIN PROJECT by Celeste Raspanti.  Prime Stage Theatre Company. February 28 – March 9.

Theresienstadt was a Bohemian ghetto where during the Holocaust Jewish families were staged before being transported to eastern concentration camps including Auschwitz. Naturally, many children found themselves captive in this once-walled city, wondering about the evils of the world outside. History informs us that artist Friedl Dicker-Brandeis taught secret classes to the youngest of these innocent Jews, allowing them to express their fears through drawing and poetry. Celeste Raspanti’s play likewise explores the power of art to protect the soul, to inspire hope, and to give purpose to the possible. I Never Saw Another Butterfly and the Terezin Project recalls the dignity of the human spirit, tested and tortured during the Holocaust in this 80th year of “never forgetting.” The play embraces the actual art—drawings, words, illustrations, and poems—collected from Terezin, the diseased ghetto whose name was rarely spoken. In remembrance of lessons learned,please take your seat. The New Hazlett Theatre, 6 Allegheny Square E., North Side. (C.P.O.)

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