Unit 1012 endorses this Play, Anne
and Emmett, in memory of two of The 82 Murdered Children of Unit 1012, Anne Frank
and Emmett Till. Let us not forget these two famous children.
Anne Frank, the young
Jewish girl whose diary chronicled the Holocaust, and Emmett Till, whose brutal
slaying in Mississippi galvanized the Civil Rights Movement, meet for an
imaginary conversation in "Anne & Emmett," a play to be staged
Monday in Topeka by the Brown Foundation of Topeka. (FILE PHOTOGRAPHS/THE
ASSOCIATED PRESS)
[PHOTO SOURCE: http://cjonline.com/life/2010-05-12/martyred_teens_remembered]
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INTERNET
SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_and_Emmett
Anne and Emmett
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Anne and Emmett is a play by Janet Langhart Cohen. The play details an
imaginary conversation between Emmett Till and Anne Frank which takes place
in Memory a non-specific afterlife or alternate dimension. The play
primarily consists of retelling the lives of the Till and Frank, and comparing
and contrasting the events in their lives.
The show features recorded narration
by Morgan Freeman, and a score by Joshua Coyne.
Shooting
The play was set to premiere at the United
States Holocaust Memorial Museum on June 10, 2009, as part of the
commemoration of Anne Frank's 80th birthday. The premiere was cancelled due to
a shooting.
A complete production history of Anne &
Emmett, The Play from its introduction in 2007 to the present day. Photos
courtesy of Ron Baker.
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INTERNET
SOURCE: http://anneandemmett.com/the-play
Anne and Emmett Poster
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SYNOPSIS
OF ANNE & EMMETT THE PLAY
Anne & Emmett is an imaginary
conversation between Anne Frank and Emmett Till, both victims of racial
intolerance and hatred. Frank is the 13-year-old Jewish girl whose diary provided
a gripping perspective of the Holocaust. Till is the 14-year old
African-American boy whose brutal murder in Mississippi sparked the American
Civil Rights Movement.
The one-act play opens with the two
teenagers meeting in Memory, a place that isolates them from the cruelty they
experienced during their lifetime.
The beyond-the-grave encounter draws
the startling similarities between the two youths’ harrowing experiences and
the atrocities against their respective races.
In Memory, Anne recounts hiding in a
cramped attic with her family after German dictator Adolf Hitler ordered the
Nazi military to round up Jews and put them in concentration camps en route to
gas chambers. Anne died of typhus at the Bergen-Belsen Nazi concentration camp
in March 1945, a few weeks before British troops liberated the concentration
camp.
Emmett tells Anne about how he, in
1955, ended up being brutally attacked by a group of racists and thrown in the
Tallahatchie River with a cotton gin fan tied to his neck. This happened after
he whistled at a white woman while visiting his uncle in Money, Mississippi.
Anne Frank (left) and Emmett Till (right)
[PHOTO SOURCE: http://www.snipview.com/q/Anne_and_Emmett]
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Roxbury
Community College
Uploaded on Mar 10, 2010
"Anne & Emmett," a one-act play
written by Janet Langhart Cohen. The play was directed by Robbie McCauley and
staged at Roxbury Community College on March 4, 2010.
VIDEO SOURCE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnQ6bnQBGYM
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