Forthcoming Productions: Souvenir d'Anne Frank
Souvenir d'Anne Frank
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The story of Anne and her rose
A cross-arts, multi-media performance piece featuring Colin Decio's Piano Trio 'Het Achterhuis' – inspired by Anne Frank and the story of a rose.
Video stills by Richard Aylwin, from the 'Sharing of the work' presentation of Souvenir d'Anne Frank, Farnham Maltings, August 2009
- Composer and pianist: Colin Decio
- Cellist: Clare Graham
- Violinist: Cindy Wu
- Performer, singer and writer: Elizabeth Mansfield
- Performer: Azusa Ono
- Visual artist: Richard Aylwin
- Lighting: Nao Nagai
- Sound: Yoko Nishimura
- Dramaturg: Steve Trafford
Years after the war, Otto Frank, Anne's father, sent a rose Souvenir d'Anne Frank to Japan, where it now blossoms and grows in the gardens of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and every Japanese city, cultivated by children – a symbol of universal love and peace...
In Souvenir d'Anne Frank, the story of Anne and her rose, told by a European woman and a Japanese girl, is woven through the seven movements of Decio's haunting piano trio, in words, song and moving imagery... A magical dreamscape which celebrates the courage of those who stand up against bullying, oppression and racism, through the luminosity of Anne Frank's extraordinary imagination, humour and wisdom, which reaches out and touches hearts, from the West to the far, far East...
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Souvenir d'Anne Frank will be available, in autumn 2010, to be performed in regional theatre venues, alongside an educational workshop programme for schools, developed by Ensemble, and the Anne Frank Trust UK. Practical, one-day workshops will explore, through music, painting and prose, the young people's creative responses to how Anne's world meets their own, and prepare them for seeing a performance.
Wherever Souvenir d'Anne Frank is presented, the Anne Frank Trust UK will also be bringing their heritage/exhibition work into the community, engaging new audiences for the show, and bringing local people and organisations together. Thus, Souvenir d'Anne Frank will offer an Arts/Heritage 'Week of Events', which will culminate in the planting of a Souvenir d'Anne Frank rose, in each community.
Together, we want to inspire our audiences, our workshop participants, and everyone who is touched by this project, adults and young people alike, to reflect and remember, in the words of the Anne Frank Declaration for the New Millennium, that...
Her life warns us about the dangers of intolerance...
That wars, now more than ever before, claim the lives of the young...
That we all have a moral and spiritual obligation to keep our world safe for the generations to come...
A word from Buddy Elias: President Anne Frank-Fonds
“I am deeply impressed by Ensemble's Souvenir d'Anne Frank project. It is in my opinion not only an educational production of high value to young people, but an amazingly fascinating theatrical and musical event, that I will never forget. The collaborative painting workshop is another addition to this project, which will surely influence everyone attending it in a most humanistic way in the ideals of my cousin Anne Frank. I wish Souvenir d'Anne Frank all the success it deserves.”
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Buddy Elias, President of the Anne Frank Fonds, and Anne Frank's cousin, has given Souvenir d'Anne Frank his blessing and full support, allowing the use of Anne's own words from her diary. The Anne Frank Trust UK, partnered with the Anne Frank House, in Amsterdam will be working with Ensemble to deliver the project.
Souvenir d'Anne Frank has been supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, and Spelthorne Borough Council.
