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more than a memorial</FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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face=Georgia>Bob Abelman</FONT></SPAN><SPAN
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face=Georgia><FONT color=#333333>It’s not often that we go to the theater to
feel anguish, futility and the sorrow that stems from inconceivable
inhumanity.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We typically go to the
theater to escape those feelings.</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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color=#333333>But </FONT></SPAN><SPAN
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color=#222222>Francis Goodrich and Albert Hackett’s dramatization of the
writings of a </FONT></SPAN><SPAN
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color=#333333>13-year-old diarist is built for that very purpose. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>“The Diary of Anne Frank” offers a
first-person account of how Anne, her family and a handful of acquaintances
survived in hiding for two years in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam before their
capture. And it asks us to never forget.</FONT></SPAN><DFN><SPAN
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face=Georgia><FONT color=#3e3e3e>By rediscovering and publishing her now-famous
diary after the war, Anne’s father <SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic">lifted the young girl from among the
</SPAN>six million Jews killed by the Nazis <SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic">and turned her, for many, into the innocent
face and hopeful voice of the Holocaust.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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color=#222222>The play opened on Broadway in 1955 and </FONT></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ">won a Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award. </SPAN><SPAN
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color=#3e3e3e>In 1959, the play was turned into an Oscar-winning
film.</FONT></SPAN></FONT></P>
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color=#3e3e3e>In 1997, for a Broadway revival, “The Diary of Anne Frank” was
adapted by Wendy Kesselman, who removed much of the pandering sentimentality and
placating melodrama of the original work and </FONT></SPAN><SPAN
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the historic Anne’s darker vision, unflattering disclosures</SPAN><SPAN
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color=#333333>, budding sexuality, </FONT></SPAN><SPAN
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well as the diary’s overt Jewishness.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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in the Cleveland Play House’s revisiting of this play – having staged the
earlier incarnation during its </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ">1958-1959 and
1996-1997 seasons – director Laura Kepley finds all its dramatic beats and very
human moments, and turns what could easily be an historical re-creation or
revered testimonial into a resonating piece of theater</SPAN><SPAN
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