Do you recognize either of these individuals?
How about this young girl?
Her name is Anne Frank.
This vibrant, young, aspiring journalist died at the hands of the Nazi's, along with millions of other Jewish people.
Sinclair Theatre is putting on a production of Anne Frank. Many people from this class are involved in this production, including myself, Maddie, Diana, James and Tamara. What scary about doing this show is that we aren't just portraying characters - We're portraying real life people. As a matter of fact, one of the characters 'Miep' is still alive today at the ripe age of 100.
I wonder what she would think if she watched our production?
Have we even come close? Could we even begin to understand what their life was like?
Her name is Anne Frank.
This vibrant, young, aspiring journalist died at the hands of the Nazi's, along with millions of other Jewish people.
Sinclair Theatre is putting on a production of Anne Frank. Many people from this class are involved in this production, including myself, Maddie, Diana, James and Tamara. What scary about doing this show is that we aren't just portraying characters - We're portraying real life people. As a matter of fact, one of the characters 'Miep' is still alive today at the ripe age of 100.
I wonder what she would think if she watched our production?
Have we even come close? Could we even begin to understand what their life was like?
We have to try to represent people who dealt with two years of extroardinary suffering in a very small attic, and then died in the concentration camps.
There is always a bit of worry that we aren't doing our characters justice; we aren't paying proper respect, because it's so easy to forget the reality of the situation and play these people as if they're nothing more than story book characters.
I do believe, however, that as long as we remember that this is a true story, we're respecting the Franks, the Van Pels and Fritz Pfeffer. We're telling their story, showing the struggle they went through.
There is always a bit of worry that we aren't doing our characters justice; we aren't paying proper respect, because it's so easy to forget the reality of the situation and play these people as if they're nothing more than story book characters.
I do believe, however, that as long as we remember that this is a true story, we're respecting the Franks, the Van Pels and Fritz Pfeffer. We're telling their story, showing the struggle they went through.
We're keeping their legend alive.
Their example (through this play) has stood as a testament to their resilience, the injustice they suffered and the extroardinary goodness of individuals like Miep and Mr Kraler who put their own lives at stake to save others.
So as we're moving into tech week and pulling our show together, getting it ready for you all to watch, I hope we do a sufficient job of telling their story.
I hope it would pass Anne's approval.
So as we're moving into tech week and pulling our show together, getting it ready for you all to watch, I hope we do a sufficient job of telling their story.
I hope it would pass Anne's approval.
AHH im struggling to make this comment about your writing rather than the subject.. *sighs*. okay, i can do this!
ReplyDeletei must say that i love how you did some research about the real people that we are portraying and put it into this piece; im thinking of the Miep being 100 years old tidbit! very nice to put in! after all, TDOAF (..haha!) isn't just a story; it is a recounting of a true event, of people who lived (minus Miep!!) through a time we cannot truly relate to today. i liked how you built this piece not around the plot line, but around the PEOPLE. it gives this piece a different perspective.
I also think it was very clever of you to introduce the topic through photographs of the unappreciated heroes of "Anne's tale". it might be cool if you eventually revealed who those women are!
i'd also maybe, in that first little paragraph after anne's intro, if you talked a bit about what the show itself is about? like the setting, why they're there, etc. not too much, but just enough. then you can go right into the fact that you aren't going to to through the whole story; you want to take your piece of writing in a different direction. it'll make your approach more effective, i think!
of course, i am a little biased towards liking this piece, but all the same...
i really liked it. :)
Ah, this is a great topic, I'm really excited to see the show not only because it's a sinclair production(godly) but because it's not dealing with fictional characters like you said! This was really interesting, and i wish you guys the best of luck in your show
ReplyDeletei believe that anne would be proud that you care so much about telling her story. she would see that you care most of all about respecting their memory.
ReplyDeleteThis was a beautiful heartfelt piece, you used exectional detail, expression and imagery.