Act 1, Scene 1-4

scene 1: Mr. Frank is in the attic and tries to keep self control as he looks around. He finds a white glove on the floor and picks it up and starts to cry. Miep who is twenty-two and pregnant asks Mr. Frank if he is ok. Mr. Frank tells Miep he wants to leave because this place has too many memories of his family. He is now all alone. Miep tries to convince him to stay. Mr. Frank thanks Miep for her help. As he tells Miep to follow him, Miep grabs a file of papers left on the floor and tries to give them to him but he tells her to burn them. Miep hands him Anne's diary and he starts to read it out load to Miep. Later Anne's voice joins him. Anne mentions in her diary how everything changes in her life and the limits she's given. Anne talks about how she's going into hiding upstairs at her dad's old job with the Van Daan.








scene 2: It's July 1942. Peter, Mr. and Mrs. Van Daan are a rich family that is going into hiding with the Franks. Mr. Van Daan is fat but very well put together. He is tall and in his late 40's. Mrs. Van Daan is pretty and in her early 40's. Peter is 16 and shy. Miep went to go buy them a ration book so they can keep track of the food while in hiding. Mr. Kraler explains to Mrs. Frank that what they are doing was a white market and not a black market because they were helping people hide in Amsterdam. Mr. Frank explains the rules to everyone that they would have to follow while they were hiding. Anne tries to be friends with Peter but he doesn't cooperate. He didn't even let her carry his cat. No one wants to walk around of use the W.C. between 8:30- 5:30 p.m.. The rest of the time they spent on trying to make the place feel like a welcoming home.





scene 3: They had been hiding for two months now. the last worker left the building. Anne and Peter finished their lesson Peter and Anne have a love had relationship. One second its fun and the next they begin to argue. For example, Peter called Anne Mrs. Quack quack repeatedly. He told everyone that her teacher used to call her that because she talked a lot. Anne was so upset that she took off his clothes she had been wearing and threw them down the stairs. As he passed her she tripped him. Mr. Van Daan does not like Anne and wants her to be like her sister Margot. Anne leaves in tears after her mom tells her to be more like Margot. Mr. Kraler brings someone else to join them in hiding, that person is Mr. Dussel. Anne tries to make him at home. Anne writes in her diary that she wishes Peter was a girl so she would have someone to talk to and Mrs. Van Daan keeps flirting with Mr. Frank.






scene 4: One night Anne wakes up everyone because she is yelling for help in her nightmare. Mrs. Frank wakes Anne and comforts her. When Mrs. Frank tries to care for Anne, Anne rejects it and asks for her father. Mrs. Frank is hurt because of this and cries. Anne tells her father his is the only one she loves. Mr. Frank tells Anne that that is wrong and gives her a pill so she would go back to bed. Soon Anne realizes what she did and that it was wrong. Anne tells Mr. Frank that she does not mean to do mean things and that she has a nice side but she does not know how to switch those emotions around. Soon Anne falls asleep. Anne has written in her diary that the air raids are getting worse. She says they also have hope because allies have landed in Africa. Everyone thinks there is still hope except Mrs. Van Daan who thinks they are going to die (she is a fatalist).