The Diary of Anne Frank

The Crested Butte Mountain Theatre presents a new adaptation of the famous play based on a young Jewish girl's personal account about years of hiding in an attic in occupied Amsterdam. Told through her eyes, this enthralling drama depicts goodness, hope and love, even during the horrifying time of war.

Performance Dates

Thursday 4th February - 7:30 p.m. (LW) | Friday 5th February - 7:30 p.m. (LW)

Saturday 6th February - 4:30 p.m.* (DG) | Saturday 6th February - 7:30 p.m. (LW)

Wednesday 10th February - 7:30 p.m. (DG) | Thursday 11th February - 7:30 p.m.* (LW)

Friday 12th February - 7:30 p.m. (DG) | Saturday 13th February - 7:30 p.m. (LW)

*Pay-What-You-Can Performance

(The house will open half an hour before the performance)

(LW) = Leah Wrisley as Anne Frank
(DG) = Danielle Gillman as Anne Frank

CAST

Anne Frank - Leah Wrisley / Danielle Gillman

Otto Frank - Ian Wrisley

Edith Frank - Monica Dillon

Margot Frank - Lauren Yehle

Peter Van Daan - Jeff Hargrove

Mrs. Van Daan - Christel Yehle

Mr. Van Daan - Phil Klingsmith

Mr. Dussel - John Hague

Miep Gies - Joolee Aurand

Mr. Kraler - Bill Jirsa

SS-Oberstgruppenführer Karl Silberbauer - Andrew Canale

Directed by Adam Bond

Anne Frank was a young Jewish girl who lived and died during the Holocaust. The Frank family hid from the Nazis for two long years in a Secret Annex at the back of a warehouse. During that time, Anne kept a diary in which she not only wrote about the horrors of war, but the everyday problems of being a teenager.

Crested Butte Mountain Theatre is proud to present The Diary of Anne Frank by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett in a new adaptation by Wendy Kesselman. This adaptation was first performed in 1997 with Natalie Portman in the titular role.

Her diary, which has been translated into sixty-seven languages, remains one of the most widely-read books in the world. Through the eyes of this remarkable girl, we see into the annex of her father's office and, in her own voice, hear her dreams for a better world.

"If ever there was a text that should not only be read but read and re-read, then this insightful and intensely private collection is it. One cannot stress enough how important the work is, not only in terms of it's strong statement agaisnt racism and facism, but also in terms of it's fragile beauty. The tragedy of the novel is in it's exposed privacy, the emerging spirit of a developing and intelligent young woman and the sense it gives us of a thousand similair stories never told and lost forever. "