Answer:
The stage instructions show that the opening scene takes place after the Franks have been captured.
Explanation:
"The Diary of Anne Frank" presents the events covered in "The Diary of a Young Girl" where Anne Frank wrote about the times when she, her family and other Jews were hidden for three years, not to be captured and taken to the Nazi concentration camps. However, they were captured and killed in the concentration camps, only Anne's father, Mr. Frank, survived.
When the opening scene presents Mr. Frank as an elderly man, observing the hiding place where he was, completely destroyed and covered with dust, it wishes to show that this happened after the capture of the Jews and life in the concentration camps.
