LACONIA — Audrey Ringlein believes in the power of live theater as a means for passing down stories, so she wasn’t surprised about the impact a live performance of “The Diary of Anne Frank” had on her students.

They climbed on the bus Thursday afternoon to return to Plymouth Regional High School, where Ringlein is director of theater and dance, impressed but emotionally exhausted and tearful.

Watching Anne’s story unfold live as she and her family hid in a secret annex from Nazis who had taken over the Netherlands in 1940 was traumatic on its own, but some students also connected Anne’s experience to the present day.

“It made me feel so much more than I ever could when reading it,” says Kinley McDonough, 15, of Wentworth. “There was such strong emotion — high highs ... and at the end, s

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