Hauptmann

People's Center Theater
425 20th Avenue South Minneapolis

John Logan's Hauptmann is an intense dramatization of the 1932 investigation into the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh's young son. When the primary suspect quickly became the German immigrant Bruno Hauptmann, the young F.B.I. head J. Edgar Hoover used the case to secure his position at the institution he would give his life to. An Oscar-nominated screenwriter (The Aviator, Gladiator and many more). Logan's absorbing drama is a fascinating look at the justice system, bringing up difficult questions that call into doubt whether Hauptmann was guilty or a victim of the media and rising anti-German sentiments in America. The story is told from Hauptmann's point of view, speaking directly to the audience and enacting vignettes that show the investigation, the trial and its aftermath.