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'©it (5am tea ck ‘Ghetto’ premieres at the Longstreet Theatre by Kamille Bostick fiction of a real Jewish theatre in the The Gamecock Nazi-controlled ghetto of Vilna. The plot Theatre South Carolina begins its is buiIt mu,nd the f™ries second half of the 2000-2001 season °n?-arumed man- P ayed bX Friday with the South Carolina premiere Columbm-area actor Lou Kaplan, of “Ghetto ” The theatre at Vilna, which was open “Ghetto,” by acclaimed Israeli £°m 1941-1943, opefated during the playwright Joshua Sobol, is a staged Holocaust,.g> ving more than 200 i---1 people, too —just human beings who felt justified in their actions. It’s a play that needs to be put on until we finally leam from it and continue to prevent it from happening again,” Cone said. Helping the actors identify with their characters is Terry Smith, who considers the play “heart-rending.” “Ghetto” offers the audience a chance to “grasp intellectually and emotionally” the trials of the Holocaust, according to Smith. Director of the play and artistic di rector of Theatre South Carolina, Jim O’Connor, commented that the play falls within the commitment to present “plays that matter.” “Ghetto,” awarded Israel’s play of the year, premieres Feb. 16-25 at Longstreet Theatre. Performances are at 8 p.m. on Tuesdays through Saturdays and 3 p.m. on Sundays. Tickets are $6 for stu dents, $8 for seniors citizens, faculty, staff and military, and $ 10 for general admit tance. The spotlight desk can be reached at gamecockspotlight@hotmail.com performances of conceits, poetry, cabarets and original plays. The play-within-a-play presents entertainment using skits, songs and puppets to capture life in the ghetto. Joining Kaplan in the cast will be graduate and undergraduate students from USC. Theatre students also help in the backstage duties as managers, set designers and costuming. According to stage manager Marshall Span, a fourth year student in the College of Liberal Arts, helping in the production of the play is “tough, but fun.” The cast has been learning about the Holocaust as preparation for their per formances. Actors and actresses researched their individual character’s roles before production in order to better understand and portray them. Stephen Cone, a third year student in the College of Liberal Arts, plays the young Nazi officer Kittel. Cone says that the research helped show the cast that the characters were representations of real people. Cone commented that play ing a Nazi officer is challenging on stage. “It’s a fascinating, interesting and pretty depressing journey to get into the dark side of things.... 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