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  • Laurie Scoggins:
    12 Nov. 2023
    For anyone interested in Anne Frank, this piece is inviting, interesting and relevant to how we let people “live forever”. The style is witty, and fun but also relatable. Worth a read!
  • Morey Norkin:
    10 Oct. 2023
    This is a smart and surprisingly funny look at casting the role of Anne Frank in a production that seems unlikely to address any historical context of her brief life. So timely given the current trend of not teaching history that might make someone feel bad. Ultimately, like the three Annes, we’re asked to reflect on who she was and the harsh reality of her story. I hope this play will receive more exposure and encourage conversation. Well done.
  • Anastasia West:
    4 Oct. 2023
    I cant stop thinking about this play. I did not intend to write a review, but the thing about Macdonald's work is that it demands a response. my jaw was wide since the opening stage direction. a stellar piece- I would love to see the dramaturgy that could be attached to this show (especially in an educational context.) so, so poignant.
  • Abraham Johnson:
    9 Dec. 2022
    Wry, sharp-toothed, and keenly aware of faux-progressive theater, this play is a can't-look-away exploration of three actors being told to embody the "perfect victimhood" of Anne Frank while interrogating their own relationships with her mythos. I love this refreshing, irreverent, and deeply interesting play! This script would *shine* onstage while stirring up some fascinating conversations in the audience.
  • Matt Minnicino:
    24 Nov. 2021
    This play is a beautiful little conundrum, a vicious but not unkind indictment of the most baked-in toxicity of art -- how our feelings of urgency and necessity often blind to the stark realities of what we represent, how and why. The humor is knife-sharp in its careful, pitch-black absurdity, but the heart of this piece is deeply human, challenging us to think with more nuance and less protective gear about for whom our stories are told.
  • Julianne Jigour:
    20 Aug. 2020
    What a stunning play. So inherently theatrical and thought-provoking. Funny and poignant. A memorable exploration of how we turn people into symbols for our own use, how we struggle to process trauma and tragedy, how we grapple with our identity and how we identify others. Just love this!
  • Jacquelyn Floyd-Priskorn:
    19 Aug. 2020
    In a surreal, yet frank play about actors vying to be in a play about a real turned surreal historical character, 3 actors and a props master dig deep into the world of Anne Frank. When the atrocities of the past become nothing more than props to a story, do we lose the humanity of the moment? Is it important to be exactly who Anne was to understand her? This play is beautiful while still being funny and relatable.
  • Rachel Bublitz:
    17 Aug. 2020
    Really phenomenal work. THREE ANNE FRANKS delves into identity, idolization, and the oddity and warping that can happen through only taking the parts we want from history. I love how bizarre Macdonald takes the script, and how she uses humor while tackling a subject we're told never to laugh at. But the beauty is that we're never laughing at Anne Frank or the Holocaust with THREE ANNE FRANKS, just the Disneyland-like change the subject goes through so that it can be "relatable" to modern audiences.
  • Kenzie Caplan:
    13 Aug. 2020
    What a funny, irreverent, poignant piece of theater by Maya Macdonald. Sometimes boundaries need to be pushed through humor and art in order to challenge our stale understanding of societal norms. This play revives our questions of how to honor women in history and what it means to be Jewish in the twenty-first century, all while making you laugh out loud. It still resonates for me a year after reading it for the first time.
  • Michele Travis:
    4 Aug. 2020
    This play is insightful and hilarious, an examination of history (and who decides what is remembered and recounted, and what isn't), identity, and appropriation. I love the structure, setting, and Maya's precise and resonant language. There's so much to discuss, and be delighted by, in this funny short work!

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