The Diary Of Anne Frank
by Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich

Broadway
The Diary Of Anne Frank Book Cover
The Diary Of Anne Frank Cover

Highlights

120 mins 1940s/WWII Role(s) for Teen(s) Interior Set Period Costumes American Adaptation

Awards & Recognition

Pulitzer Prize Tony Award

Winner! 1956 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Winner! 1956 Tony Award for Best Play Nominee: Five 1956 Tony Awards

Synopsis

A two-act play based on the diary of a Jewish girl who died in a Nazi concentration camp at the age of fifteen.

Press Reviews

"A lovely tender drama… Strange how the shining spirit of a young girl now dead can filter down through the years and inspire a group of theatrical professionals in a foreign land."

— The New York Times

"The precise quality of the new play at the Cort is the quality of glowing, ineradicable life—life in its warmth, its wonder, its spasms of anguish and its wild and flaring humor… Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett have fashioned a wonderfully sensitive and theatrically craftsmanlike narrative out of the real-life legacy left us by a spirited and straightforward Jewish girl… as bright and shining as a banner."

— The New York Herald-Tribune

"A moving document on the stage."

— The New York Post

"There is so much beauty, warm humor, gentle pity… in The Diary of Anne Frank that it is difficult to imagine how this play could be contained in one set on one stage… this is a fine drama."

— The New York Daily News

Characters

Character
Miep Gies
Mrs. Van Daan
Mr. Van Daan
Peter Van Daan
Mrs. Frank
Margot Frank
Anne Frank
Mr. Kraler
Mr. Dussel
Mr. Frank

Publication

Year 1986
Binding Paperback
Pages 72
Place [New York]
Language English
ISBN-13 9780822203070
ISBN-10 0822203073
LCCN 58003988
LCC PS3513.O53515 D5 1986

The Diary Of Anne Frank is a American adaptation play written by Albert Hackett and published by Dramatists Play Service in [New York] (1986).

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