From Lynda Warren
Hi
I saw your play last night in London. I am Jewish and Iım obviously moved and affected by Holocaust stories but I really only went because the girl who played Erna is my manicurist. I married out and although my children are Jewish they have not received a Jewish upbringing and we are not practicing Jews. My 29 year old son and I went to see this together and we were both more moved than I can say. Even as I am writing this e-mail my eyes are filling with tears at the thought of all Erna and all the others went through. It was so real! The film at the end with Ester explaining why she told her story was almost unbearable and I, and many others, wept copiously. I have hardly stopped thinking and talking (and sometimes crying) about this experience since. This morning my son went to work and told everyone in his office about the play. All his co-workers have looked at the website and several of them are planning to go and see it. I have told several people in my office too. I think it should be compulsory for all secondary school children to see it, especially in the context of the genocide that is still happening today. Of course this play will be most meaningful to Jews but we seem to have learned nothing and perhaps your work can contribute to our understanding of what genocide really means and how we must learn to respect each other regardless of race, colour and creed and I thank you, and Ester, for reinforcing this lesson to us all.
Kind regards
Lynda Warren
lynda.warren@camelotgroup.co.uk