Documentary Trial Plays in Contemporary American Theater

by Jacqueline O'Connor

From the Chicago Conspiracy Trial and the O. J. Simpson trial to the Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill congressional hearings, legal and legislative proceedings in the latter part of the twentieth-century kept Americans spellbound. Situated on the shifting border between imagination and the law, trial plays edit, arrange, and reproduce court records, media coverage, and first-person interviews, transforming these elements into a performance. In this first...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809332361
• ISBN13: 9780809332366
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"