Anne Frank, on and off Broadway

Magid Hoagland, Molly
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Title Anne Frank, on and off Broadway.
Host Item Commentary 105,3 (1998) 58-63
Description The new Broadway production of "The Diary of Anne Frank", adapted by Wendy Kesselman from the 1955 play by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, adds elements from the original diary which emphasize Anne's Jewishness. Kesselman replaced the play's original upbeat ending with a vivid description of how Anne suffered and died at Bergen-Belsen. Despite the changes, Kesselman's "Diary" remains a sentimental play about a luminous, flirtatious, idealistic Anne that won the praise of critics forty years ago. Absent is Anne's "darkness", intellectual precocity, inquisitiveness and complexity, and the extent of her Jewish consciousness is underdeveloped. The reason is not that the original 1952 version of the "Diary" (edited by Anne's father Otto Frank) or the recently published complete version of the "Diary" do not present these sides of Anne. Rather, the fault lies with the original and the more recent Broadway producers who ignored them. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Language English
National Library system number 990002044920705171
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