It's hard to speak my heart

Slow Burn Theatre Company begins 2025 with their staging of Alfred Uhry and Jason Robert Brown's searing 1998 Tony winner. Based upon a true story of racial and political injustice, Parade is an exploration of hearsay and hysteria and how both can shatter the lives of any of us at the drop of a hat.

What is the story?

With themes as timely as ever, Parade is set in Marietta, Georgia in 1913 and concerns the trial of one Leo Frank, a Jewish factory owner accused of a horrific crime. In the face of rising Anti-Semitism and media sensationalism, Leo is forced to fight for his life as the townsfolk work themselves into a frenzy.