ANNE AND EMMETT

            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)

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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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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)

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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.

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