Echoes of Vilna

Local play read at Interlochen this weekend

April 5, 2025

A 2020 Pew Research Center study found that while eight in 10 Americans know what the Holocaust is (what do the other two think?!), only about six in 10 know that Nazi-created ghettos were parts of a city or town where Jews were forced to live. Sunday, April 13, Interlochen students will perform a staged reading of Echoes of Vilna, set in the Vilna Ghetto in Vilnius, Lithuania, “where poetry, music, and unyielding hope become weapons of survival.” The play is based on actual diaries from the young people of Vilna and written by Traverse City playwright Ken Newbury. Esther Triggs, Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for Interlochen Arts Academy and a graduate of City University New York with a master of arts in Applied Theatre program, will direct. Admission is free for the reading at 5:30pm at the Music Building.