{"id":21072,"date":"2025-11-12T21:26:56","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T02:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/?post_type=wfsu-news&#038;p=21072"},"modified":"2025-11-13T06:41:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T11:41:18","slug":"crawfordvilles-palaver-tree-theater-stages-a-world-premiere-of-a-play-based-on-a-real-life-link-between-florida-and-the-holocaust","status":"publish","type":"wfsu-news","link":"https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wfsu-news\/crawfordvilles-palaver-tree-theater-stages-a-world-premiere-of-a-play-based-on-a-real-life-link-between-florida-and-the-holocaust\/","title":{"rendered":"Crawfordville&#8217;s Palaver Tree Theater has a new play about a Holocaust artifact"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-21072-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/cpa.ds.npr.org\/s390\/audio\/2025\/11\/sterlinglegacy1112full.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cpa.ds.npr.org\/s390\/audio\/2025\/11\/sterlinglegacy1112full.mp3\">https:\/\/cpa.ds.npr.org\/s390\/audio\/2025\/11\/sterlinglegacy1112full.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>The old saying, &#8220;Truth is stranger than fiction,&#8221; would seem to apply to a new play written by a Florida State grad student. Tom Flanigan reports the work premieres this Thursday through Saturday at Crawfordville&#8217;s Palaver Tree Theater.<\/p>\n<p>The name of the play is &#8220;Sterling Legacy.&#8221; The co-director, Jeffrey Mandel, says the plot is based on a real happening.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Danielle Wirsansky, an FSU doctoral candidate in history and a Fulbright Scholar, her specialty is the Holocaust, World War II and women spies of World War II, wrote this play based on an incident that actually happened. Which is, a terrible remnant of the Holocaust turns up in a storage unit in Florida.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sterling Legacy will be staged at the Palaver Tree Theater Nov. 13-15. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.palavertreetheater.org\/products\/sterling-legacy-a-play-by-danielle-wirsansky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here<\/a> for tickets. <\/p>\n<div class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2025 WFSU News<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","wds_primary_category":0},"categories":[],"tags":[1137,1135],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Crawfordville&#039;s Palaver Tree Theater has a new play about a Holocaust artifact - WFSU Local Routes<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wfsu-news\/crawfordvilles-palaver-tree-theater-stages-a-world-premiere-of-a-play-based-on-a-real-life-link-between-florida-and-the-holocaust\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Crawfordville&#039;s Palaver Tree Theater has a new play about a Holocaust artifact - 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