Tickets Now On Sale for BHS Production of Letters to Sala

Tickets sales are now underway for the Batavia High School production Letters to Sala. Show dates are April 19th, 20th and 21st at 7:30 pm, and a matinee on Saturday April 21st 2:00pm. Performances will take place in the Black Box at the Batavia Fine Arts Centre. Tickets are available at www.BataviaFineArtsCentre.org and at the box office by calling 630-937-8930. Ticket prices are $12 online and $14 by phone and at the box office.

Adapted from the book Sala’s Gift by Ann Kirschner and based on a true account, Letters to Sala is a remarkable story of a young girl's survival during wartime Germany. Five years. Seven Nazi labor camps. Over 350 hidden letters. Sala Garncarz Kirschner kept her secret for over fifty years, concealing her incredibly painful history in a Spill and Spell box. Everything changes when Sala reveals the cache to her grown daughter, Ann. Sala's letters, which were displayed in a special exhibition at the New York Public Library in 2006, are an important addition to Holocaust research, called, as one journalist noted, "the greatest find since Anne Frank's diary."

Director Joshua Casburn said "This has been one of the most powerful journeys I have been on with a high school cast. Though your typical Holocaust drama would be dominated by brutal realities of human suffering and depravity, this true story is at times funny, at times sweet, and altogether emotionally uplifting and inspiring. We are so proud to have the opportunity to share it with the world."

BHS Cast Members: Freshmen - Anthony Barranco, Grant Cardelli, Vivien Cohen, Tom Hougen, Venessa Plourde, Anika Thoresen and Olivia Tippets. Sophomores – George Aigner, Sophie Chahmirzadi, Isabella Clarey, Hannah Curran, Ian Farrar, Landon Keller, Nuha McDiarmid, Maisie Sweeney and Jeremiah Young. Juniors – Demi Anderson, Colin Callahan, Anna Harms, Nathan Knautz, Cate Rocha, Lily Rousseau, Maisy Wilson and Lily Zofkie. Seniors – Vinnie Cesarone, Samanta Echevarria, Giulia Frassetto, Erika Knutson, Max Micheli, Emily O'Brien, Mary Clare Perreault, Emily Tae Smith, Natalie Sweeney, Meg Tucker and Abby Weiss.

Don’t delay - purchase your tickets soon as they will sell out quickly.