Through the Eyes of a Friend (The World of Anne Frank), is an interactive one-person historical program, blending video, audio, personal discussion and live performance. The live performance will take place at the historic Marion Palace Theatre on Monday, March 4, 2013 at 10:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. Reservations are required.
Through The Eyes of a Friend (The World of Anne Frank), brings the audience into the world of Anne Frank. This moving program is a poignant portrait of friendship and survival, brought to life through the eyes of Anne Frank’s “best friend”. Recognized as a breakthrough production model for consciousness raising and educating individuals, Through the Eyes of a Friend encourages audiences to discover their personal awareness of stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination. This 45-minute performance is recommended for ages 10 and up.
Through the Eyes of a Friend is one program performed by LIVING VOICES, a Seattle-based acting troupe that presents dynamic solo performances uniquely combined with archival film that turns history into a moving, personal journey. Additional historical events performed by Living Voices include: Immigration, the Mexican-American Farmworkers Movement, Japanese Internment during WWII, the Suffragist Movement, Revolutionary War, the Great Depression, Westward Expansion, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Native American “civilization” experience.
For the past 20 years, Living Voices has been harnessing the power of theatre to highlight and inspire social change, encourage learning, honor diversity and build community. Living Voices offers a creative and personal approach towards exploring complex issues and understanding their significance for today’s youth. Living Voices has presented nearly 50,000 shows since 1992, reaching millions of audience members nationwide.
Theatreworks USA has a distinguished history of not only providing young audiences with their first taste of the performing arts, but also giving young actors, writers, directors, and designers an early opportunity to work in this field. A list of Theatreworks USA alumni reads like a veritable “who’s who” of theatre: four-time Tony-winning director Jerry Zaks, Robert Jess Roth (Beauty and the Beast), Michael Mayer (Thoroughly Modern Millie); writers Marta Kauffman and David Crane (TV’s “Friends”), Lynn Ahrens and Steven Flaherty (Ragtime, Once on This Island), Jason Robert Brown (Parade), Larry O’Keefe (Bat Boy), Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx (Avenue Q); and Tony-winning actors John Lloyd Young, Roger Bart, Chuck Cooper, and John Glover. Esteemed performers F. Murray Abraham, Henry Winkler, and Judy Kuhn also got their start with Theatreworks USA, and other actors have gone on to originate lead roles in such Broadway shows as Avenue Q, Hairspray, Young Frankenstein, Rent, Wicked, Jersey Boys, and many others.
Celebrating its 50th Anniversary in 2011-2012, Theatreworks USA is America’s largest and most prolific professional not-for-profit theatre for young and family audiences. Since 1961, Theatreworks USA has enlightened, entertained, and instructed over 84 million people in 49 states and Canada, now performing for about three million people annually. Every year, the company tours approximately 16 shows from its ever-growing repertoire of 125 plays and musicals. In addition, Theatreworks USA also has an extensive multi-cultural guest artist roster, including storytellers, puppeteers, poets, and magicians. Under the direction of Barbara Pasternack (Artistic Director) and Ken Arthur (Producing Director), Theatreworks USA is also one of the most honored theatres of its kind. It is the only children’s theatre to receive both a Drama Desk and a Lucille Lortel Award. In addition, Theatreworks USA was the recipient of a 2001 Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation Award, and in May 2000, The Actors Fund of American bestowed its Medal of Honor upon its founders, Jay Harnick and Charles Hull
Reservations are required for Through The Eyes of a Friend (The World of Anne Frank). General admission tickets for are $3.50 and may be purchased at the Palace box office, 276 W. Center St. in downtown Marion or by phone at 740/383-2101. Box office hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, closed Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday.
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