Anne Frank & Emmett Till - Cincinnati Event

Cincinnati Black Theatre Company presents Anne & Emmett

Anne & Emmett runs thru Feb 28, 29, March 1^st and March 6, 7 and 8^th, 2020.

Anne and Emmett is a play by American Janet Langhart Cohen. It explores an imaginary conversation between Emmett Till, an African American, and Anne Frank, a German Jew, which takes place in Memory, a non-specific afterlife or alternate dimension. They were killed as young teenagers because of racial persecution.

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.

Anne & Emmett runs thru Feb 28- March 1, 2020 and March 6 -8, 2020 at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center 50 East Freedom Way, Cincinnati, and Ohio 45202.

This show is presented by Cincinnati Black Theatre Company along with partners Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust & Humanity Center and the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center.

Friday Feb. 28, 2020               7:30pm

Saturday Feb. 29, 2020           2:00pm & 7:30pm

Sunday Mar. 1^st. 2020             3:00pm

Friday Mar. 6^th, 2020              7:30pm

Saturday Mar. 7^th, 2020          2:00pm & 7:30pm

Sunday Mar. 8^th, 2020             3:00pm

Written by Janet Langhart Cohen
Directed by Don Sherman