‘Otto Frank’ is not just about 1942 Amsterdam, it’s about our present moment - The San Francisco Examiner

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Roger Guenveur Smith stars in a new solo performance inspired by the father of diarist Anne Frank.

Marc Anthony Thompson and Roger Guenveur Smith, right, collaborated once again to bring “Otto Frank” to the stage.

Now, the 60-minute “Otto Frank” premieres as a Campo Santo production under the umbrella of the Magic Theatre, directed by Sean San José, the Magic’s new artistic director who is also a Campo Santo founding member. During his career, Guenveur Smith has embodied such figures as Booker T. Washington, Frederick Douglass, Bob Marley and others, and worked with Spike Lee on seven films. In “Otto Frank,” the eponymous character speaks directly to his beloved younger daughter, who died at Auschwitz in 1945 at the age of 15. Otto Frank himself died in 1980 at the age of 90.

Otto Frank was white, Jewish, Dutch-German, a concentration camp survivor — how did you find ways to connect to him personally?

 

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