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The Diary of Anne Frank

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  5w, 5m

The Diary of Anne Frank
Dramatized by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett

Few more poignant true stories emerged from World War II than the diary of young Anne Frank. Published long afterwards by her father, the only family survivor, it records the minutiae of twenty-five months that two Jewish families spent in hiding from the Gestapo in an Amsterdam warehouse attic.

The Diary of Anne Frank

  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    5w, 5m
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Adaptation (Literature), Biography, Period, Docudrama/History
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Appropriate for All Audiences

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Summary
Few more poignant true stories emerged from World War II than the diary of young Anne Frank. Published long afterwards by her father, the only family survivor, it records the minutiae of twenty-five months that two Jewish families spent in hiding from the Gestapo in an Amsterdam warehouse attic. The constant secrecy, growing hunger and friction of living in'such cramped conditions could not dull Anne's vibrant personality or her passion for living.
M5 (16, middle-age-elderly) F5 (teenage, 20s-40)
  • Time Period 1940s/WWII
  • Setting An attic
  • Cautions
    • No Special Cautions

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Frances Goodrich

Frances Goodrich (1891-1984) was born in Belleville, NJ and started in the theatre as an actress, making her debut with Ruth Chatterton in 1916 in Come Out of the Kitchen. She collaborated with Albert Hackett in writing the play Up Pops the Devil in 1930, and they married the ...

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Albert Hackett

Albert Hackett (1900-1995) made his New York stage debut as an actor as a little girl in Lottie, the Poor Saleslady in 1906. He appeared in productions of Peter Pan, Crime, Whoopee and The Nervous Wreck.

With Frances Goodrich, whom he married in 1931, he wrote the plays Brida ...

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