SYNOPSIS:

Berkeley native Roger Guenveur Smith returns to the Magic Theatre with a new solo performance inspired by the father of diarist Anne Frank and scored live by Marc Anthony Thompson. Smith's Otto Frank is an intimate meditation on our current moment which interrogates our not-so-distant past. His Otto, the only member of his immediate family to survive the Nazi death camps, addresses his daughter beyond her time and his own, navigating loss, adolescent ambition, the denial of the diary’s authenticity, and of the Holocaust itself. Smith and Thompson have devised poetic and sonically driven work which illuminates the Franks’ tragedy and triumph in a new and necessary light. This show will be coming from the Under the Radar Festival at the Public Theatre in NYC.

Featuring Roger Guenveur Smith

Live Music by Mark Anthony Thompson