A NEW musical production is coming to The Mount in Progress Theatre’s latest show, Parade.
Parade is a dramatization of the trial and imprisonment of Jewish American Leo Frank in Georgia in 1913, and the event of his death two years later, when he was kidnapped and lynched.
Frank’s imprisonment came after his wrongful conviction of the rape and murder of a 13-year-old employee of his, Mary Phagan, in a trial riddled with faulty testimony and lacking clear evidence.
The nature of the trial, as well as outside evidence, saw Frank’s sentence commuted from capital punishment to life imprisonment, stoking antisemitism.
The fallout of the case would also go on to spur the foundation of the Anti-Defamation League, as well as a revival of the Ku Klux Klan.
The work first premiered in 1998, with music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown and a book by Alfred Uhry.
It was co-conceived and directed on Broadway by Harold Prince.
Progress Theatre’s production is directed by Jake Turnell Willett.
Parade is showing at Progress Theatre, The Mount, from Thursday, June 12, until Saturday, June 21.
Full details and tickets are available via: ticketsource.co.uk/progresstheatre
