After a recent performance, a few audience members walked out of the theater dabbing their eyes.
Rita Klein, 63, of Atlanta, who came to see the show with her husband, a Holocaust survivor, pulled out the Kleenex early on. "It was very, very moving and very disturbing," she said.
Andre Kessler, 65, who was also cloistered in an apartment as a child hiding from the Nazis, said he thought it was an inventive way to revisit Anne Frank's story.
As Ludwig sees it, the production succeeds because puppets, by their very woodenness, force the audience to fill in movements, expressions and interior lives.
"When it's a puppet, you're really invoking that spirit," he said. "You're supplying half the work. You're going within. I feel like it's very powerful."
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