The Spellbound Development Co Hosts Reading Of THE IDEALIST
By: Gabrielle Sierra
The Spellbound Development Company will present a reading of a new play THE IDEALIST by Jennifer Strome, directed by Lee Sankowich, at The Times Center (242 W41st Street) in February 2011. The one night charitable event will raise proceeds to benefit the education against intolerance. Details for the event will be announced in January 2011.
The Idealist divulges the infamous, behind-the-scenes saga of author Meyer Levin (1905-1981), in a fact-based account of his role as the original dramatist of The Diary of Anne Frank, the most famous diary to have emerged from the 20th Century. Strome's play was written under the mentorship of legendary filmmaker David Brown, who produced the original film adaptation of "The Diary of Anne Frank" for 20th Century Fox in 1958. Strome spent nearly ten years working directly with Levin's wife, his 3 sons, Anne Frank's only living relative Bernard Elias, President of The Anne Frank Foundation in Basel Switzerland, and with the few remaining witnesses to this 60 year-old controversy. www.theidealistonstage.comVideos