The truth can be stranger than fiction, and it can be more unsettling as well. In historian and playwright Danielle Wirsansky’s latest production, “Sterling Legacy,” an artifact connected to the Holocaust sends its main character on a haunting quest to uncover the object’s full story and wrestle with how to handle its future.
“It’s showing us, basically, how the past is still reverberating in the present,” Wirsansky said.
The play, which will debut at the Palaver Tree Theater on Nov. 13, draws on Wirsansky’s expertise as a Ph.D. candidate in modern European history at Florida State University. She specializes in using theater as a platform for Holocaust education and has been writing and directing plays on the topic set in the World War II era for more than a decade. This is the first time one of her productions takes place in the present…