1/25, Sunday. A preview of Here, There are Blueberries at Seattle Rep.
A very powerful play. Hightly recommend it.
The plot: an anonymous donor sent in a photo album of SS officers and workers in the Auschwitz Camp to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. The curators debated whether and how to exhibit these photos. Seemingly innocent young girls at a field trip eating blueberries, doctors, construction laborers, farmers, children of the SS officers, ... All normal people doing his/her job, keeping the killing machine running. It questions our humanity. Will I be the same? In order to keep my livelihood, not to lose my job, will I refuse to see the big picture? This Karl Höcker album is real.
No intermission. Simple stage set, but use a lot of projections.
I was 2 minutes late, and wasn't let in until maybe 10 minute passed.
The house was 80-90% full tonight.
At the lobby, Museum of Holocaust had a table of some reproduction of their exhibits.
Some reproduction of the photos mentioned in the play are also displayed in the lobby.
