Remembering the world of Anne Frank

The Blue Sky Network and The Big Issue proudly presents James Still's
‘And Then They Came For Me’ on Sunday  9 August 2009 at the Pavilion Theatre.

The Blue Sky Network in Association with The Big Issue
Tribute performance in memory of The Big Issue vendor Ralph Millward

‘And Then They Came for Me’ - remembering the world of Anne Frank and her step sister Eva Schloss, is a unique theatrical experience: a multimedia play that combines videotaped interviews with Holocaust survivors Ed Silverberg and Eva Schloss with live actors recreating scenes from their lives during World War II.

Ed was Anne Frank's first boyfriend, and she wrote about him in the beginning of her now-famous diary. Eva Schloss was the same age as Anne Frank and lived in the same apartment building in Amsterdam. Her family went into hiding the same day as the Frank family. And like the Frank family, they were betrayed.

On Eva's 15th birthday, her family was arrested by the Nazis and sent to concentration camps. Eva and her mother survived, and after the war her mother married Otto Frank (Anne's father).

Part oral history, part dramatic action, part direct address, part remembrance, the ensemble-driven And Then They Came for Me breaks new ground and has been acclaimed by audiences and critics in world-wide productions.

"This production is like a historic newsreel brought to life on the stage. And it works." (Charles Epstein, WICR Radio, Indianapolis

Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief of The Big Issue Dr John Bird MBE will be interviewing Dr Eva Schloss following the performance.

Directed and Produced by Nic Careem.