Genre Comedy
Drama
First Performance 04/10/2024
Closing 23/11/2024
Running Time 2h, inc. interval

What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank is a new serious comedy by Nathan Englander, based on his acclaimed 2011 short story in The New Yorker. It is directed by the director of the Olivier and Tony Award-winning Leopoldstadt, Patrick Marber, and from the producers of 2023’s The White Factory.

WHAT A serious new comedy.
WE Two Jewish couples; one secular, the other ultra-Orthodox.
TALK The argument none of them meant to have.
ABOUT Identity, Politics, Parenthood and Getting High.
WHEN Present day Florida.
WE A college dropout who claims to be a ‘Pastafarian’.
TALK Provocative, Hilarious, Painful, Honest.
ABOUT Gaza, Israel, the Holocaust, Nazis, Marriage, Sex.
ANNE A nice Jewish girl…
FRANK is not in this play.

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