The Diary of Anne Frank

The inaugural production of Destination Theatre Company was The Diary of Anne Frank by Francis Goodrich and Albert Hackett.  Diary... is the dramatic and heroic story of one girl who, despite not surviving the Holocaust, has become a representative of all of the millions of Jews who were "exterminated" by the Nazis during the 1940s.  The play begins and ends with a scene between Mr. Otto Frank and the two "helpers," Mr. Kraler and Miep Geis.  The first scene sets up the whole play as a memory from the eyes of Mr. Frank.  However, as you see the scenes unfold and hear the diary entries read, you realize that it is not a fictional story but the truly heroic effort of one young girl to survive the ordeal with her sanity in tact.  Anne's incredible courage gave us the gem of the second act, "I still believe, in spite of everything, that people really are good at heart.

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See this and other highlights from rehearsals

For this first production, we were given the use of the lower chapel at West County Assembly of God in Chesterfield MO.  The small-ness of the space and the low ceiling helped give the needed illusion of the cramped quarters occupied by the residents of the secret annex.

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