Compulsion
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Feb 17, 2011
Closed Mar 13, 2011
Opened Feb 17, 2011
Closed Mar 13, 2011
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It is 1951, and Sid Silver is on a mission to be the guardian of one of the most moving and provocative accounts of the 20th century. Deeply moved by Anne Frank's diary, he is driven to bring her story to the American masses by promoting the book's publication and adapting the diary into a work of theater. Inspired by the story of Meyer Levin, Compulsion brings playwright Rinne Groff and Artistic Director Oskar Eustis (The Ruby Sunrise) together again with a complex and inventive telling that is part historical fiction, part investigation into what makes a man obsess, and part exploration of an untold dimension of Anne Frank's powerful and enduring legacy.
The cast features Hannah Cabell (Miss Mermin / Mrs. Silver), Matte Osian (Mr. Thomas / Mr. Harris / Mr. Ferris / Mr. Matzliach) and Mandy Patinkin (Sid Silver).
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Rinne Groff's Compulsion, now at the Public Theater, is based on the real-life writer Meyer Levin's obsession with exercising a nebulous option to dramatize Anne Frank's diary. But it all begins with puppets.
These evocative half-size creatures, designed by Matt Acheson, figure prominently in this retelling of a calamitous career, and the Public's relatively intimate Martinson Hall affords a better view of their delicate movements than they did at Yale Repertory, where the play originated. Here, the puppets are in plain sight from the outset and better integrated into the action. Some hang in readiness, suspended from a catwalk; while Anne herself is seen writing in that totemic red-and-whi[...]