Event

The Diary of Anne Frank

In this transcendentally powerful new adaptation by Wendy Kesselman, Anne Frank emerges from history a living,
lyrical, intensely gifted young girl, who confronts her rapidly changing life and the increasing horror of her time with
astonishing honesty, wit, and determination. An impassioned drama about the lives of eight people hiding from the Nazis
in a concealed storage attic, The Diary of Anne Frank captures the claustrophobic realities of their daily existence their
fear, their hope, their laughter, their grief. In this gripping new adaptation, newly discovered writings from the diary of
Anne Frank, as well as survivor accounts, are interwoven to create a contemporary impassioned story of the lives of
people persecuted under Nazi rule. This is a new adaptation for a new generation.

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