Days and Nights: Page 121, Lines 11 and 12

Purple Man Theater Company presents the world premiere of Days and Nights: Page 121, Lines 11 and 12, a new play that blends dialogue from The Seagull with the characters and circumstances from Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl. The work is adapted and directed by Marc Stuart Weitz.

The characters inside the attic where Anne Frank, her family and four others hid from the Nazis don’t actually perform The Seagull, but as the events of Chekhov’s play and the Frank family’s circumstances unfold simultaneously, the similarities of both well-known stories become evident and striking: the feelings of longing, of being trapped, and the complicated and stormy relationship between child and mother, friends and lovers.