IF YOU GOWhat: “The Diary of Anne Frank.”When: 7 p.m. Thursday, March 23, March 29-30; 8 p.m. March 24, March 31; 2 p.m. March 25.Where: Dalton Little Theatre, 210 N. Pentz St., Dalton, Ga.Admission: $15 adults, $12 seniors, $10 students, $5 children.Phone: 706-226-6618.Website: www.daltonlittletheatre.com.
While prison-camp incarceration may have spelled the end for Anne Frank, it only began the awareness of her chronicles of the Frank family’s existence in hiding during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands during World War II.
First published in 1947, it was translated into English as “Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl” in 1952 and adapted to the stage in 1956.
That stage version, “The Diary of Anne Frank,” will be presented by the Dalton Little Theatre beginning Thursday and continuing through the following weekend.
“The precise quality of the new play,” the New York Herald Tribune wrote of the original stage adaptation, “… is the quality of glowing, ineradicable life — life in its warmth, its wonder, its spasms of anguish and its wild and flaring humor … Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett have fashioned a wonderfully sensitive and theatrically craftsmanlike narrative out of the real-life legacy left us by a spirited and straightforward Jewish girl … as bright and shining as a banner.”