Preview: “Yours, Anne”
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“Yours, Anne” is the play with music written by Enid Futterman that tells the story of Anne Frank. Anne was a Jewish girl living in hiding with her family in Amsterdam through the Nazi occupation during World War II. Her diary documented her stay in hiding and was published at the end of the war after she, her sister Margot and her mother were killed in Nazi concentration camps.
“People have preconceived notions of Anne Frank. This play will put her into a more human perspective. That is what she was. She was bratty. She was a teenager. She is usually portrayed as a martyr. I think the fact that she was an actual girl is lost in all of that,” said theatre major Bren Thomas, the show’s stage manager. “This play is also different from what we usually do here at GCSU.”
The play was also a challenge because of the musical element calling for each character to sing.
“A lot of us are not singers and the music is not exactly easy,” said theatre major Nic Marrone who plays Peter Van Daan. “Jennifer (Watkins) has never sung before and she’s the lead. She is doing an amazing job.”
The play takes the audience into the small attic that Anne lived in with her mother, father, sister, and four others. The stage, crowded with furniture, beds and trunks, gives the feeling of chaos and suffocation. Director Byron Grant has brought all of the elements including setting, lighting, music, songs and acting together to allow the audience to feel how Anne must have felt during those agonizing months.
Catherine Bixler is a sophomore psychology major who is making her GCSU debut as Margot Frank, Anne’s sister.
“People should come see the play because it gives a really accurate and interesting insight into what life was like for the people in the attic,” Bixler said.
“Yours, Anne” is showing now in Russell Auditorium. Tickets are available for Friday and Saturday night performances which begin at 8 and a Sunday afternoon performance which begins at 2. Student tickets are $6. To preorder, call (478) 445-4226. Tickets are also available at the box office.
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on Nov 21 2008. Filed under Features.
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