Twenty-Something Theatre SPOTLIGHT Presents:
Anne Frank is In My Dreams
By Lee Cookson
Directed by Fay Nass
“Some people find freedom within closed walls and some people find closed walls within freedom”
Pete is a young man, working for a publishing company, who is a good employee and a serious worker but is he happy? Everyday Pete goes to work where he starts and finishes his day by writing the perfect thirty-word book synopsis. The repetition of his life has made him restless and jaded until a feisty new intern, Anna, begins working at his office. As Pete sits down to write the synopsis for the newest edition of “The Diary of Anne Frank” the lines between reality and dream become blurred. Anna becomes Anne and together they show Pete how to dream again. Anne Frank is in My Dreams is on stage at the Havana Theatre from March 3 – 8, 2009.
This production of Anne Frank is in My Dreams marks the return of last year’s successful SPOTLIGHT production where Twenty-Something Theatre features one local emerging artists and gives them to opportunity to shine. This year’s SPOTLIGHT production features up-and-coming director Fay Nass.
Fay moved to Canada in 2000 and, due to the language barrier, for the first time found it difficult not being able to express herself. She enrolled in acting classes and pushed herself to learn English as fast as possible. After high school she was accepted into the theatre program at the University of Victoria where she directed several successful plays, one of which was a celebrated production of No Exit by Jean Paul Sartre. Other theatre credits as a directing student at UVic include: Hunger and Thirst by Eugene Ionesco, and Angels in America by Tony Kushner. Shortly after graduation she directed, The Shy Situationist, for the Victoria Fringe Festival 2007, and a staged-reading of Anne Frank is in My Dreams at the Sage Theatre Festival in Calgary. She was the assistant director for Twenty-Something’s production of SubUrbia and most recently she was the assistant director to Donna Spencer for the production of Stuff Happens at the Firehall Arts Centre.
Show Times:
March 3 – 8, 2009
Havana Theatre, 8pm
Ticket Information: $20 Regular, $15 Students & Seniors (with valid id), $10 Preview. Tickets available at the door or from Tickets Tonight online or by phone at 604-684-2787.