Spring Production - The Diary of Anne Frank by Frances Goodrich &
Albert Hackett
New Hall, Tiverton. Wednesday 21st to Saturday 24th April 2010
Written by Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett
With kind permission of Samuel French
Showing: Weds 21st to Sat 24th April 2009, the New Hall, Barrington Street, Tiverton at 7.30pm.
Tickets will be available from March '10 from Twyford Photography Print, Bampton Street, Tiverton. Tickets cost £6 for the Wednesday night and £7 for the other evenings.
Synopsis:
Soon after Hitler came to power, Otto Frank, a German Jew, moved his business to Amsterdam where he thought that his family would be safe. After the start of the war it became evident that this would not be the case and so he started to make preparations to go into hiding. Eventually in 1942 his family moved into an unknown attic above his factory warehouse which he shared with his friends, Mr and Mrs Van Dann and their son Peter. This play is adapted from the diary of Anne Frank his youngest daughter and describes their lives over a period of two years leading up to the time just before the end of the war. Regrettably, just before the war finally ended, the families were discovered and taken to concentration camps where they all died with the exception of Otto Frank himself. Otto Frank himself was consulted over the contents of this play and so it is considered to be an accurate, albeit much condensed, portrayal of what really happened.