Based on the historical true-crime book by Harry Farrell
In November 1933, a nightmare shook the quiet town of San Jose, California, when a young man named Brooke Hart was abducted while leaving his father’s department store. He had graduated from Santa Clara University just months before, after having graduated from Bellarmine College Preparatory in 1929. In the days that followed the kidnapping, the Harts, local and state police, and J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI scrambled to trace the kidnappers, whose demands kept changing. Two men confessed to the crime, and their subsequent lynching in St. James Park set off a national debate about mob rule and vigilante justice. This tale of murder, vengeance, and hope in San Jose’s not-so-distant past returns to Tabard in a new re-working by Tom McEnery.
Featuring: D.J. Fernandes, Stefan Fisher, Kate Lincoln, Jerry Lloyd, Tiffany Nwogu, Matt Regan, Abdul Samad, Tyler Savin, Bob Siegmann, Brandon Silberstein and Jaime Wolf.
* 2:15-2:30pm FREE presentation for visually impaired patrons.
Everyone welcome.
Δ Post-show discussion in-person and via livestream, approx. 10 minutes after show end.
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What the Critics Have Said
“powerful and timely…
A very moving story”
—Cecilia Fábos-Becker
“Much kudos go to The Tabard for… bring[ing] this bit San Jose of dark history to modern attention.
—Eddie Reynolds
“as important today as it was in the 1930’s”
— Cecilia Fábos-Becker