The Diary of Anne Frank

The Diary of Anne Frank is the impassioned drama of the legendary journals of a Jewish girl hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam during World War II. The Frank family, along with family friends the Van Daans and local dentist Mr. Dussel, is forced to spend 25 months in the confines of a concealed storage attic in the annex of rooms above Otto Frank’s office. After being betrayed to the Nazis, all were arrested and deported to concentration camps. Anne Frank died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen. She was 15 years old. However, knowing the tragic ending does not detract from experiencing the hope within these people as they struggle to overcome their situation and try to prevent the tensions of the outside world from affecting their present one.

The Diary of Anne Frank communicates other timeless relevancies that are brought to the fore because of extenuating conditions. The play captures the claustrophobic realities of a family’s daily existence- their fear, their hope, their laughter, their grief. We witness Anne’s sexual discovery, familial tensions and all the issues of a normal teenager growing up. Everyone can identify with someone in this play and imagine themself in a similar circumstance.