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Dutch actress Rosa da
Silva portrays Anne
Frank in the new play
Anne, which had its
world premiere in
Amsterdam on May 8,
2014.
The play is produced
by Kees Abrahams
and Robin de Levita, a
Tony Award-winning
Broadway producer
who worked on hits
such as Chicago and Les
Miserables.
Imagine Nation pays
the Anne Frank Fonds
royalties from tickets
that cost between $50 and $100. The
foundation will use these revenues
exclusively for charity and educa-
tional purposes, in keeping with Otto
Frank's directive.
To achieve authenticity, Kugelmann
gave the creators of the play full
access to countless documents that
are the sole possession of the founda-
tion. The foundation was set up in
1963 by Otto Frank, Anne Frank's
father and the editor of the world-
famous compilation of his daughter's
writings, The Diary of a Young Girl,
first published in 1947.
Otto Frank had already approved
a script by playwrights Frances
Goodrich and Albert Hackett — an
American Jewish couple — for a the-
atrical production that premiered on
Broadway in 1955. But their adapta-
tion was based on his own selection
of sources, which left out count-
less documents, letters and other
accounts.
Based on those more expansive
materials, the new play tackles pain-
ful subjects, such as Anne's growing
estrangement from her mother and
sister during their days in hiding. It
also includes a scene in which she
gets her first period.
"The theater world evolved in ways
that facilitate the dramatization of
situations that were more difficult to
convey in the past," Kugelmann said.
"We wanted the play to evolve, too,
but we wanted to broaden the scope
and set the Anne Frank story in its
historical Jewish context for educa-
tional purposes."
The new play's premiere, which was
attended by King Willem-Alexander
of the Netherlands, took place on the
69th anniversary of Nazi Germany's
surrender and shortly after the 70th
anniversary of the death of Anne
Frank and her sister, Margot.
The new techniques include a giant
revolving platform that rotates the
annex where the Frank family hid,
allowing viewers a simultaneous view
of all inhabitants. Kugelmann calls
this "life-acted performance!'
The effect is reminiscent of real-
ity television shows like Big Brother
in which participants share a single
building with little privacy.
And that is no coincidence.
"Anne Frank's story was a Big
Brother show avant la lettre (before
the reality-show concept existed), one
where exile meant death," said Leon
de Winter, the Dutch Jewish novelist
who co-authored the script for Anne
with his wife, Jessica Durlacher.
De Winter said he hoped the Big
Brother allusion would help younger
viewers connect to the play.
Another technical innovation offers
spectators real-time footnotes to the
scenes as they are being acted out on
stage. The footnotes — photographs
of actual pages full of Anne Frank's
handwriting — are projected on side
panels while the cast portrays the
situation described in the text.
As the months in hiding progress,
the handwriting gradually matures
from the hesitant block letters of a
child to the flowing cursive style of an
author who is gaining confidence as
she hones her writing skills.
Authenticity is further pursued
through language. The play itself
is in Dutch with a bit of German.
Simultaneous translation into six
languages is offered to the audience
through earpieces.
De Winter, whose parents survived
the Holocaust in hiding, said that one
of the predominant emotions he had
while writing the script was anger.
"I worked with my anger, my fury,
over what was done to her," he said.
Durlacher, whose own father sur-
vived Auschwitz, said that she drew
inspiration for the script from letters
that Otto Frank had written to rela-
tives after his return from the Nazi
death camp.
"In the beginning, he didn't know
what had happened; he was only then
finding out. And that's heartbreak-
ing," she said, referring to Otto Frank.
"It gave me the tools to write to my
best ability so that the story of Anne
Frank would get re-adapted for gen-
erations in a way that better speaks
to contemporary viewers, in their
language. That's what we've tried to
do." ❑
Tickets for Anne at Theater
Amsterdam in the Netherlands
are currently available through
Aug. 31. www.theateramsterdam.
nl .
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