Those who enter the Pavilion tonight will be transported back to the days of WWII and the Holocaust.

"Playing For Time," a play by Arthur Miller, opens at 7 tonight and runs through Wednesday. The performance is based on the biography of Fania Fénelon, a French singer imprisoned in Auschwitz during the war.

Director Lizz Collins (junior-theatre) said the play takes place in the Nazi concentration camp from 1942 to 1945. It follows a group of women who played music in the camp's orchestra to survive.

"It tells the story from their point of view and their perspective," Collins said. "The tone of the play is extremely emotional, very connected and humanistic, but solemn."

Collins said she wanted to direct this particular play because she was really interested in telling the story of the Holocaust from a woman's outlook.

Victoria Longwell (freshman-theatre), who plays the part of the French singer, said she was drawn to the compelling story. Longwell's character becomes the leader of the women's orchestra and teaches them how to play well enough for the Nazis.

Collins said that she hopes the performance has an effect on the audience's emotions.

"My hope is that everyone takes something different away from it," Collins said. "I just hope that people feel something, anything -- whether it's disgust or love or kindness or a sense of closeness with friends and family."