Frank, Frank, Franks

2m, 1w
1m 72, 1m 38; 1w 39

On the twelfth anniversary of Leo Frank's lynching, his widow Lucille ruminates on their life together as she sifts through objects in a trunk in her attic. On the same day in 1927, in Chicago, Jacob Franks, the father of Leopold & Loeb victim Bobby Franks, does the same. Otto Frank, father of Margot and eventually of Anne Frank, brings baby clothes into the attic and reflects on his life too.

The set of Frank, Frank, Franks is an attic, with just a trunk as a prop. Items referred to as being in the trunk should be mimed or referred to rather than being physically present. While the characters exist in three separate locations (Atlanta, Chicago, and Frankfurt am Main), all action occurs in the same attic, with the same trunk.

The brutal killings of Leo Frank in Marietta, Georgia in 1915 and of Bobby Franks in Chicago in 1924 are described in some graphic detail. Poignancy comes from the contrast of their deaths with the promise of the yet-unborn Anne Frank.

Frank, Frank, Franks provides a sobering insight into the experience of three Jewish families joined by similar last names and tragic deaths.