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Detroit Repertory Theatre presents the world premiere
of "Magda's Story" about a woman who said "yes" to
humanity when the rest of the world said "no."

SUZANNE CHESSLER

Special to The Jewish News

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director of the Cleveland Play House
Lab Company.
"Magda doesn't understand what
the fuss is all about because she can't
imagine having acted otherwise,"
explains Eliet, also impressed with her
enduring the times of change brought

laywright David Eliet was
doing research for another
production when he met
Maria Magdalena Bednarova
and learned of her acts of
bravery before, during and
after World War II. Her
life, he instantly decided,
had all the makings of
great drama.
Eliet put off writing the
other work to focus on
Magda's Story, which will
have its world professional
premiere at the Detroit
Repertory Theatre in
April. The play, already •
staged at the Simon
Wiesenthal Tolerance
Center in Los Angeles,
recalls the deeds of a.
Catholic Czechoslovakian
citizen who thought
opposing Nazi persecution
was a straightforward mat-
ter of right over wrong.
"Magda makes a lie of
statements made by people
who say they could not, as
individuals, have done
anything to combat the
Chris Ann Voudoukis is the lead character in
Nazis," says Eliet, referring "Magda's Story," which takes Magda, a Slavik
to the 75-year-old woman
woman, through 50 years of her lift — through three
who is the subject of his
loves, Hitler's invasion, the persecution of Jews and
play. "She is truly a beauti- debasement under the Communists.
ful person in every sense of
about by the fall of communism.
the word."
Bednarova continues to live in her
Eliet's heroine is shown as a young
native city, Bratislava, which has been
woman engaging in intrigue set on a
the capital of the Slovak Republic
train. Her purpose for travel is to do
since 1989, when Czechoslovakia was
whatever is necessary to get a Jewish
divided into the Slovak and Czech
man into safe territory.
republics.
The playwright met Bednarova
Learning about Daniella's father,
through her daughter, Daniella, a
the
late Jan Flimel, who helped save a
member of the audience watching a
boat
full of Jews, Eliet asked for the
touring
in
1994 production he was
rights to tell that story. Then while
Bratislava during his tenure as artistic