A play by Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett. [ 717 perf.; Pulitzer Prize, Tony, NYDCC Awards.] Shortly after the war Otto Frank returns with his former stenographer, Miep Gies to the attic where Mr. Kraler had hidden the Frank family and some other Jews from the Gestapo. There Frank discovers the diary kept by his thirteen-year-old daughter Anne .His thoughts fly back to the months they spent there, often in silence lest they give away their whereabouts; to happy moments such as a Chanukah celebration and to bitter ones such as catching a fellow Jew stealing their food. The announcement of Allied landings brings hope of a quick release, but shortly before the liberation their hiding place is betrayed. Anne and the others are sent to the gas chambers. Only Mr. Frank manages to escape. Now he reads the last line in the diary. “In spite of everything,” Anne writes, “I still believe people are really good at heart.” “She puts me to shame,” the still bitter Frank acknowledges. The play was based on the real Anne Frank's diary (published in English as Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl), which had become a worldwide best-seller after the war. 

 “By wisely shunning any trace of theatricality or emotional excess, the playwrights have made the only-too-true story deeply moving in its unadorned veracity.” It was successfully produced in almost every major theatre centre with noteworthy New York revivals in 1978 and 1997.

CAST

Peter van Daan - Fraser Jamieson

Mrs Frank        - Annie Townsend