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. Each day of these two dark years, Anne’s voice shines through: “When I write I shake off all my cares. But I want to achieve more than that. I want to be useful and bring enjoyment to all people, even those I’ve never met. I want to go on living even after my death!”
This play is being produced in partnership with Olivia Feldman’s Bat Mitzvah project to benefit the Phoenix Holocaust Association in their efforts to preserve the experiences of holocaust survivors and insure their stories are never lost.
Stage adaptation: Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett
Director: Rachel Redleaf
Stage Manager: Rebecca Courtney
Lighting: Dale Nakagawa
Sound: Pete Bish
Set: Pete Bish & Chase Budden
Costumes: Diana Likes
Props: Maureen Watson
Cast
Anne Frank- Olivia Feldman
Mr. Frank- Jack Walton
Mrs. Frank- Vanessa Benjamin
Margot Frank- Bella Cucchetti
Mrs. Van Daan- Nora Palermo
Mr. Van Daan- Noah Sucato
Peter Van Daan- Cole Blubuam
Mr. Dussel- Kristopher Swint
Miep- Kendall Luther
Mr. Kraler- Hayden Skaggs
Show Dates:
Friday November 12, 2021 - 07:00 PM
Saturday November 13, 2021 - 07:00 PM
Sunday November 14, 2021 - 02:00 PM
Friday November 19, 2021 - 07:00 PM
Saturday November 20, 2021 - 07:00 PM
Sunday November 21, 2021 - 07:00 PM
Ticket Prices: $20
Box Office: 480-949-7529 Greasepaint.org
Stagebrush Theatre, 7020 East 2nd St., Scottsdale, AZ 85251
“A lovely tender drama…Strange how the shining spirit of a young girl now dead can filter down through the years and inspire a group of theatrical professionals in a foreign land.” —NY Times. “The precise quality of [THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK] is the quality of glowing, ineradicable life—life in its warmth, its wonder, its spasms of anguish and its wild and flaring humor…Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett have fashioned a wonderfully sensitive and theatrically craftsmanlike narrative out of the real-life legacy left us by a spirited and straightforward Jewish girl…as bright and shining as a banner.” —NY Herald-Tribune. “…a moving document on the stage.” —NY Post. “There is so much beauty, warm humor, gentle pity…in THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK that it is difficult to imagine how this play could be contained in one set on one stage…this is a fine drama.” —NY Daily News.
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