Northwestern College sponsors encore of reader's theatre production

“Things We Couldn’t Say,” a reader's theater presentation that tells the story of a World War II Holocaust survivor and resistance fighter, will return to the Knight Center stage at Unity Christian High School Tuesday, Oct. 11. The free 7 p.m. performance is sponsored by Northwestern College.

A local cast will reprise roles they played when “Things We Couldn’t Say” was performed in June as an Orange City Arts Council event. James Schaap of Alton wrote the script, based on a book he authored with Diet Eman, who lived in the Netherlands during its occupation by the Nazis. The play is the love story of Diet and Hein Sietsma, the resistance fighter she had planned to marry.

“Things We Couldn’t Say” is the first Northwestern event funded by a grant from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The grant will support programming designed to teach students, faculty, staff and members of the community about the Holocaust. Beginning in January, that programming will include guest speakers, book and film discussions, a traveling exhibit from the Anne Frank Museum, and a professional development opportunity for educators regarding how to teach the book “The Diary of Anne Frank” to their students.