"The Diary of Anne Frank"

The next play of our 1999-2000 season is "The Diary of Anne Frank"
Opening Thursday, November 18th, 7:30 p.m. at the Jake and Freda Stein Hall of the
E.E. Bass Cultural Arts Center, Greenville.

Other play times: Friday & Saturday at 7:30pm; Sunday at 2:30 p.m.
(Note: Special performance for schoolchildren at 9:00 a.m., Monday, November the 22nd.)

ANNE FRANK was just one of the millions of Jewish victims of Nazi persecution during World War II. Her family tried to escape the Nazis by going in to hiding. In July of 1942, Otto Frank, his wife Edith, and their daughters Margot and Anne, hid in the building of Mr. Franks business in Amsterdam, Holland. The uppermost floors of the back annex became their secret home.

Later they were joined by the Van Daan family, husband, wife and their son, Peter, as well as Mr. Dussel. All were totally dependent on Mr. Frank's employees, especially Mr. Kraler and Miep Gies, who visited daily, bringing them food and the (mostly grim) news of the outside world.

During all this Anne, a creative and usually mature early teenage girl, kept a diary. The time frame is from their entering the Annex until their betrayal two years later. Anne and all her family except her father perished in the death camps of the Holocaust. The diary was taken from the badly trashed Annex by Miep Gies, who saved it for history.

This play is directed by Mary Frances Maxey with Robbie Scucchi serving as assistant director. If you'd like to know more about Anne Frank, a good place to start on-line would be:

The Anne Frank Center, USA

Our other productions in our 1999-2000 season are: Jesus Christ, Superstar (early spring of the year 2000) and Marvin's Room (in late spring). Season tickets are available at (662) 335-4375 or (662) 335-6839.