“ At its heart and from its earliest incarnations, theater has existed to tell stories – whether through words, actions, song, dance, all combinations thereof – and as playwrights, telling stories is, or should still be, our main concern. And Barbara Kahn tells a beautiful one, and beautifully simply, in "Cyma's Story." Vivid, touching, intimately epic, this letter written by a Russian Jewish emigre living in Shoshone, Wyoming at the outbreak of WWII pierces the heart, and lingers for days after reading it. ”