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Are You Now or Have You Ever Been?

Eric Bentley

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LA Theatre Works

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...In the mid-1950’s, the House Un-American Activities Committee began investigating the communist influence in the entertainment industry. This searing docudrama from actual transcripts of the hearings reveals how decent people were persuaded...

The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial

Herman Wouk

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LA Theatre Works

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...This acclaimed WWII psychological courtroom drama was the sensation of 1954. The play portrays a mutiny of naval officers aboard the U.S.S. Caine. Their suspicions concerning their captain’s sanity lead to their rebellion and a subsequent...

Consent

Nina Raine

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National Theatre

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...Age recommendation: 15+ (references to rape) This archive recording was captured on 9th May, 2017. Why is Justice blind? Is she impartial? Or is she blinkered? Friends take opposing briefs in a rape case. The key witness is a woman whose...

The Merchant of Venice

William Shakespeare

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The Royal Shakespeare Company

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...In the melting pot of Venice, trade is God. With its ships plying the globe, the city opens its arms to all – as long as they come prepared to do business and there is profit to be made. When the gold is flowing, all is well – but when...

Jesus Hopped the “A” Train

Stephen Adly Guirgis

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LA Theatre Works

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...An intense, chilling take on life behind bars, Jesus Hopped the “A” Train strikes a fine balance of “intellectual vigor and sophistication on the one hand and so much anguished passion on the other.” (The New York Times). A riveting work...

The Judiciary's “Lonely Splendor”: Courtroom TV and the Battle for Ideological Influence

Sarah Kozinn

Dr Sarah Kozinn is a Mellon postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Theater at Occidental College in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is a scholar of law and performance, develops new works for film, TV and the web, and acts professionally in film, theater and television. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Justice Performed : Courtroom TV Shows and the Theaters of Popular Law

Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2015

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...At some point during every reality courtroom TV show the announcer or a title card will remind the audience that what they are about to see is real. Divorce Court boasts, “Real couples. Real disputes.” The People's Court announcer...

A View from the Bridge

Arthur Miller

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LA Theatre Works

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...Italian-American immigrant life in the 1950’s textures this searing drama of love and revenge. Longshoreman Eddie Carbone is devoted to his wife, Beatrice and to his niece, Catherine. When Beatrice’s impoverished Sicilian cousins enter...

Death and the Maiden

Ariel Dorfman

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LA Theatre Works

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..."Generally, it's the tortured who turn into torturers." Carl Gustav Jung Suspense mounts when Paulina and her husband offer hospitality to a stranger. Paulina thinks she recognizes, in their guest, the man who tortured her in prison...

Trifles

Susan Glaspell

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LA Theatre Works

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...Written by Susan Glaspell in 1916, Trifles is a one-act play about a woman accused of strangling her husband. Based on an actual murder case reported by Glaspell for the Des Moines News, the play represented an early exploration of gender...

Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers: 2008 Tour Edition

Geoffrey Cowan

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Leroy Aarons

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LA Theatre Works

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...A timely docudrama about The Washington Post’s decision to publish the Pentagon Papers, a top secret study documenting U.S. involvement in Vietnam. The subsequent trial tested the parameters of the First Amendment, pitting the public...