"CARA KITTY.....Anna Frank"

**7th Edition of the THEATRICAL FESTIVAL "TEATRAMM" 2025**

*Emiliano De Martino*, as the Artistic Director of the event, presents the seventh edition of the **TEATRAMM' theatrical competition** which will be held in Rome from September 2nd to September 7th, 2025. On September 2nd and 7th (inauguration and final evening of the Festival) at the Monsignor Grassi Auditorium in Marino (Rome) and from September 3rd to 6th at the Teatro Portaportese in Rome.

**The Diary of Anne Frank** begins in June 1942, as one of the many gifts for her 13th birthday. Until then, her life still bore some resemblance to that of any girl her age. Yet, just at 13, **Anne** naturally speaks the *language of the persecuted*: she knows that she and her family must wear the Jewish star, that they cannot go to public places, that they cannot take trams. Yet, despite the fact that "the good times are over" after the German invasion, as Anne writes in her diary, she can still occasionally forget the war, the Germans, and the danger in June '42, and live quite joyfully eating ice cream, riding bicycles, flirting with classmates, studying Greek mythology. Until the summer, however, when her father Otto, foreseeing a worsening of the situation for Jews in occupied Holland, seriously considers the possibility of seeking a **"secret accommodation"** for himself and his family, a hiding place where, *on July 6 of the same year, the Frank family, the Van Daan family and dentist Dussel, would lock themselves away for two years, without ever leaving, without ever peeking out the windows, visited only by faithful friends who know the secret of the revolving bookcase, bringing in food, books, and news from outside. In that hideout, they live scraping and cooking potatoes, arguing, listening to English radio, alternating between fear and hope; obsessed by food deprivation, boredom, and the myriad problems of enforced confinement. In this waiting, marked by strained adults for whom the slightest thing causes alarm, Anne finds herself grappling with the problems of a girl growing and changing, inevitably feeling stifled by the lack of free air, the monotonous adult conversations, feeling misunderstood and abandoned to herself, to her own fear and boredom on some days, while on others, she would become docile and cheerful again, suddenly reconciled with the world. And her diary once again becomes a faithful daily chronicle, the logbook of this stationary ship in the center of Amsterdam, slowly shipwrecked without knowing it...
She, the only child among adults, proves to be the only adult, the only one somehow prepared to die: the only one who searches, in the meaning of death, for something other than pure horror or pain.
The only one who seeks to look beyond herself, the only one searching in her own story for a universal meaning.*

With *Caterina Rubini*
Directed by *Maurizio Sarubbi*
Graphics by *Maria Pastore*

**We look forward to seeing you at Teatro Portaportese, Via Portuense, 102 - Rome**

📅 **THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4th at 19:30**

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