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![]() Purpose-built for ANNE by production company Imagine Nation, Theater Amsterdam is an 1100-seat theatre with a circular auditorium, allowing for quick scene changes through the use of a track system on which sets can be moved speedily into place by being driven around the audience seating banks. This meant that ANNE was the first adaptation of the diary to be allowed to quote direct passages, whereas earlier version had had to resort to rephrasing Frank's literal wording. The initiative for the production had come from the Anne Frank Foundation in Basel, set up by Otto Frank after the war to safeguard the legacy of Anne Frank and her writing, and to educate about the Holocaust. Exterior (front) of the building, with its logo visible on the right, and a poster for theatre production 'ANNE' on the left.ĪNNE opened in Theater Amsterdam on May 8th 2014 in the presence of king Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands and Buddy Elias, at the time the last remaining family member of the Franks. Theater Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. ![]() ![]() Anne steps out of the tableau one final time, speaks a passage from her diary about her ambition to become an author, and disappears into a sunrise. The play ends with a faint memory of Anne and Margot, slumped together in Bergen Belsen concentration camp where both would perish, surrounded by a crowd of anonymous concentration camp victims. Otto Frank, the only inhabitant of the annex to survive the war, tells in a monologue of what happened to the two families and to Fritz Pfeffer after their arrest, their transit to camp Westerbork, and their deportation to Auschwitz, where the eight part ways. Anne lives through puberty, her teenage years, conflicts with her family, and a burgeoning sexuality, but is forced to undergo it all in the cramped 500 square foot of the annex.Īfter nearly two years, the secret annex is discovered and the eight Jews in hiding are taken away by German soldiers and Dutch police. Anne finds solace in her diary, passages of which she reads out or relates to Schiff. Tensions between the two families begin to rise, and similarly between Anne and Pfeffer, with whom she is made to share a room. Later that year, Jewish dentist Fritz Pfeffer also joins. A week later, they are joined by the Van Pels family: Otto's business partner Hermann, his wife Auguste and their teenage son Peter. The family arrive in the annex, aided by Otto Frank's former colleagues and helpers Miep Gies and Jan Gies. A few weeks later, Anne's sister Margot Frank is summoned to report to a Nazi work camp in Germany, and their father, Otto Frank, decides to take the family into hiding in the annex at the back of his former company in central Amsterdam. Anne is given a red and white checkered autograph book which she decides to use as a diary. The story jumps back in time to Anne Frank's thirteenth birthday in the Frank family home at Merwedeplein in Amsterdam. Anne Frank subsequently frequently steps into and out of the narrative and back into the frame story to talk to Schiff, who remains part of the play as a confidante of Anne's. She tells him her story, in chronological order, of the time between June 1942 and August 1944. The girl reveals herself to be Anne Frank, a childhood friend of Schiff's from Amsterdam. There, she runs into Dutch emigré Peter Schiff, who, like herself, has survived the war and has since established a publishing business in Paris. A girl in her early twenties, a student at a prestigious Parisian university, meets with friends and fellow students in a Paris restaurant. The play also formed the basis for the first German film adaptation of the diary.ĪNNE begins with a framing narrative set in Paris some years after the end of the Second World War. After a near two-year run in the Netherlands, the play closed in 2016, and had production runs in Germany and Israel. As such, Anne was the first adaptation allowed to quote literal passages from the diary. The play was the first major new adaptation of Frank's diary since the 1955 play, and was both authorised and initiated by the Anne Frank Foundation in Basel, the organisation set up by Frank's father Otto Frank to preserve his daughter's legacy and work. The secret annex behind Otto Frank's company in Amsterdam.ĪNNE is a 2014 play dramatising the story of Jewish diarist Anne Frank's period in hiding in the Secret Annex in Amsterdam during the Second World War. The years Anne Frank spent in hiding from the German occupation of the Netherlands. Theater Amsterdam in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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