WINNER 8 2007 TONY AWARDS INCLUDING Anne Anew from page 49 which were restored in an edition published well after his 1980 death. Unexpectedly, though, the relation- ship between Anne and the slightly older but shy Peter van Daan is portrayed nearly as chastely as in previous dramatizations. Without knowing which (if any) scenes were trimmed from the BBC adaptation for American audiences, one won- ders if the version shown in Britain included a sequence involving Anne and Peter's teenage hormones. Ellie Kendrick's (An Education) forthright but shaded performance as Anne Frank drives the production all the way to its heart-rending conclu- sion. At the same time, we get a strong sense of the myriad interpersonal tensions in the group, attributable to a collision of sensibilities as well as prolonged close quarters. What doesn't come through as strongly is the sense that two full years are passing. Anne was 13 when she entered the annex and 15 when she was captured and shipped to her death (with her mother and sister) at Bergen-Belsen. Always the apple of her father's eye, Anne's attention progresses over the years in hiding from Daddy to Peter (in the program's second hour) to a near-obsessive focus on her diary. Rejuvenated by upbeat radio news- casts of the Allies seizing the upper hand from the Nazis, the annex's inhabitants — the intellectual and refined Otto, Edith, Margot and Anne Frank; the crude, bickering Herman and Petronella van Daan and the reticent Peter; and the stuffy dentist, Albert Dussel, who shares a room with Anne — allow themselves to revel in dreams of life after the war. Anne, however, is inspired by an announcement that firsthand accounts of the Occupation will be especially prized. Enamored with the project of polishing her diary, and enthralled at discovering her calling as a writer, she immerses herself into her work. The great and grievous irony, of course, is that she didn't live to see herself recognized —immortalized, really — as a writer. Ultimately, Anne Frank's life and diary testify to the triumph of humanity over ideology. For a teen- ager, even one as uncommonly ambi- tious as she was, that's a remarkable accomplishment. ❑ MATURESUBJECTMATTER Fisher Theatre • April 20—May 9 _ . Tickets at Fisher Theatre box office Ticketmaster cam 800-982-2787 & all ticketrnaster outlets Groups of 124- 313-871-1132 or email GroupSales;Es'NederlanderDetroit corn Info 313-872-1000 & — BROADWAY \ DETROIT corn • Broadway in Detroit sponsored by your Southeastern Michigan Lincoln Mercury dealers • DriveLM com Detroit Public Television airs a new adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank 9-11 p.m. Sunday, April 11. For a limited time begin- ning April 12th, the production will be available to view online at pbs.org/masterpiece. . 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