Always one of my favorites. Every year that I teach this play I get something more from it. I understand something more about the characters, about their portrayals, about Anne's maturity over the course of the play, about their constant and nagging worry... Every year after finishing the play I go home and keep silence for the rest of the day because it is absolutely devastating to commit myself so fully to being a memory keeper of Anne's story and of the tragic events of the Holocaust. 8th grade students always have a staggering amount of questions and outrage after finishing this play. But as important as it is to explore the valleys of our past, I can't leave my students there. I have to find a way to pull them back up to more level emotional ground. That gets harder for me to do each year as we have more neo-Nazi visibility, more religious-based hate crimes, and internment on our own boarders.
Anne's story and her words are just as relevant for us Americans today as they were for the world when she wrote them so many decades ago.

5 star - Perfect
4 star - i would recommend
3 star - good
2 star - struggled to complete
1 star - could not finish

No rating for this one but it was a good dramatization of the book.

I am so glad to have read this. The diary does not go into the camps, but instead shows the fear that Jews lived in. How they had to hide because they were being hunted. It is a great educational book.

As I understand it, reading the actual Diary of Anne Frank is quite affecting. The play unfortunately does not stage very well. It's not awful, but it's evident that it should be read rather than performed.

Truly amazing book. So insightful for such a young age. The teenager-girl thoughts on her family, mother, sex, and get "hidden true self" are so relatable, though the circumstances are unthinkable. It made it more astounding and heartbreaking.

We read this in LIT class. it was really good, but i hated the ending. it was sooooo sad.
all in all, i really liked the book and thought Peter was pretty awesome. it was soooo sad.
it was sooooooooooooo sad.