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Ann - Play
Anne was the initial adaptation, being allowed to start quoting from the literal passages from the diary. After about two years in the Netherlands, the play got over in 2016, with its production running across Israel and Germany. The play had even formed the general basis for the initial German film adaptation of the diary.
The Plot
Anne starts by framing a set of narratives in Paris a couple of years after the end of the Second World War. The girl in her early twenties became a student at a prestigious Parisian University by meeting friends and fellow students in a restaurant in Paris.
Here she is running into the Dutch emigre Peter Schiff who, like her, had survived the war and had established the business of publishing in Paris.
The girl discloses herself to become Anne Frank, the childhood friend of Schiff from Amsterdam. She narrates her story to him in sequential order during the time between June 1942 and August 1944.
Anne Frank frequently stepped in and out of the narrative into the storyline. She speaks to Schiff, who stays in the part of the play, becoming the confidante of Anne.
The story starts with Anne Frank's thirteenth birthday in the family home of Frank in Amsterdam. Here, Anne is presented with a red and white checkered autograph book that she decides to use as her diary.
A couple of weeks later, Margaret, Anne's sister, gets summoned to report at the work camp of Nazis in Germany. Her father, Otto Frank, makes up his mind to take the family into hiding in the annex at the back of a former company in Central Amsterdam.
The family arrived at the annex, helped by Otto Frank's former colleagues and helpers, Jan Gies and Miep Gies. The Van Pels family joins them a week later. Later that year, Fritz Pfeffer, the Jewish dentist, joins the family.
Tension rises between the families and Anne and Pfeffer, with whom she decides to share a room. Anne finds solace in the diary with passages reading out or relating to Schiff.
Despite undergoing puberty, teenage years, conflicts with her family, and burgeoning sexuality, Anne lives across the cramped 500 square feet of the annex.
After a couple of years, the secret annex was discovered with eight Jews who were taken to hide away from the Dutch police and German soldiers.
Otto Frank, the only surviving inhabitant of this annex, informs in a monologue of the incidents between the families and Fritz Pfeffer. He narrates the aftermath of the arrest during the transit to the camp of Westerbork, the deportation to Auschwitz, where the eight start to part ways.