[NEohioPAL] "Anne Frank": An Invitation from George Roth

["George Roth" <georoth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The Diary of Anne Frank

Best Stage Drama, 2006

- Cleveland Scene

 

Whether you've never seen the play, or seen it many times, see this outstanding production as well...

- Fran Heller, Cleveland Jewish News

 

It is not to be missed!  If you only see one play this year...this should be it.

- Roy Berko, Times Newspapers

 

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Dear friends and colleagues:

 

If you didn't see it the first time around -

If you did, but want to once again celebrate the resilience of the human spirit -

 

later this month The Beck Center will be remounting The Diary of Anne Frank.   

 

 

The production, honored with Cleveland Scene magazine's designation as Best Stage Drama of 2006, is being remounted with the same design team and the original cast largely intact.  The revival will play ten student matinees to nearly 5,000 children from all over Northeast Ohio, and the Beck Center has honored the show with a limited public run of four performances.   The dates for the public performances are:

 

Saturday, January 26, 8pm

Friday, February 1, 8pm

Sunday, February 3, 3pm

Saturday, February 9, 8pm

 

Keeping tabs on our performance schedule is a bit of a challenge, given that our four public performance dates are spread out over a three-week period, but I hope you'll be able to find one that fits your schedule. 

 

Having the opportunity to revisit the journey of Otto Frank and his family is a very special privilege for me.  It gives me another chance to honor my mother and her family, German Jews who fled to France in 1936, were interred in the Gurs concentration camp in 1940, lived in hiding for two years, and then escaped to Switzerland in 1942.

 

I hope to see you at the Beck Center.

 

Thank you.

 

George Roth

 

 

For Tickets:

 

Call 216-521-2540

or go to www.beckcenter.org

 

The Beck Center for the Arts is located at:

 

17801 Detroit Avenue

Lakewood, OH 44107

 

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Cleveland Scene - Best Stage Drama, 2006   

 

During World War II, while Nazis sent Jews from all over Europe to extermination camps, the Frank family spent two years hiding in four small rooms in Amsterdam. The Beck Center's production of The Diary of Anne Frank, under the sensitive direction of Sarah May, beautifully conveyed the searing reality of the family's growing dread mixed with daily bickering and affection, as well as the tragic outcome. Working from a new treatment of the original work, May clarified the importance of the Franks' Jewish faith and the flawed goodness of Anne herself.   

                                                                                                          

 

Cleveland Jewish News - A Stellar Beck Production

By Fran Heller

 

Sarah May's graphic and viscerally stunning production moved me in ways both achingly familiar and startlingly new, a tribute to her vivid staging, an ace creative design team, and a stellar cast who bring the newer version to such robust life...  

 

Beck is to be commended for mounting this production. The West Side theater, situated in a neighborhood that is mostly non-Jewish, brings history and an important work of art to the larger world...

 

Whether you've never seen the play, or seen it many times, see this outstanding production as well.