The Play
I Never Saw Another Butterfly is also the name of a one-act play by Celeste Raspanti. The play centers around Raja, one of the children who survived in Terezin, and her family and friends. She shares her story of living in the concentration camp, while retaining a world filled with butterflies and flowers with other children in the camp...
Kirkland theatre Studio East has performed the play as a musical, with poems written by the children set to music.
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