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  • 1.  Letters to Sala

    Posted 06-22-2024 14:30

    Hi,

    I am considering Letters to Sala for my high school kids.  I read an excert but I would like to read the whole play does anyone have a copy I can borrow.  Digital is fine.  I promise I will not perform it without proper rights, I just would rather not pay just to read it.

    Thanks



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    Alison Clemens
    Auditorium Manager
    Flushing High School
    MI
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  • 2.  RE: Letters to Sala

    Posted 06-23-2024 07:42
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    Hello, Alison --

    Thanks for considering LETTERS TO SALA. I've attached an updated version for your perusal, which has a few changes from the printed DPS script. I can also send you a 45/50-minute version. There are resources available online at letterstosala.com 

    Staging is flexible -- I first directed it with two tables, six chairs and a bench -- and while there are over two dozen speaking roles, mostly women, the play has been performed, with doubling, with as few as six or eight actors and also with as many as 35, creating crowd scenes at the railroad station and in the camps. This story seems more relevant than ever; most recently scenes were presented at the JCC in Manhattan for an event honoring women of the Holocaust and folks commented on the play's message of hope.

    Sala's story has been produced at nearly 200 high schools and colleges around the country since it was published ten years ago and her letters are archived and with advance notice can be viewed in the Dorot Jewish division of the New York Library on Fifth Avenue.  Sala's daughter, Ann Kirschner, who is currently the interim president of Hunter College, is available, schedule permitting, to meet with student casts, and we frequently do that together. 

    Please don't hesitate to reach out to me if you have any questions or any difficulty with permissions through Dramatists Play Service at Broadway Licensing.

    All the best,



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    Arlene Hutton, playwright
    Letters to Sala
    I Dream Before I Take the Stand
    Kissed the Girls & Made Them Cry
    As It Is In Heaven
    Susie Sits Shiva (EdTA commission)
    According to the Chorus

    faculty, The Barrow Group, NYC
    arlene@barrowgroup.org
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