THE TRIALS
OF HARVEY MATUSOW 

“The thing about McCarthy – the thing
they never tell you – is this: Joe McCarthy
was a son-of-a-bitch – but he was the
nicest son-of-a-bitch you ever met.”

The Trials of Harvey Matusow is the true story of a New Yorker who in the early 1950s
exchanged the comradeship of  the Communist Party for the cushy life of a paid informer,

freelancing for such as the FBI, HUAC, Counterattack,
and Joe McCarthy’s Government Operations Sub-
Committee. He then put the cat among the stoolpigeons
by announcing that he had made up most of his
testimony.               

Written and performed by Robert Cohen, under the directorship of Ralf Higgins, The Trials of
Harvey Matusow premiered at the appropriately named
Old Courtroom during the 2010 Brighton Festival, and has
so far been seen in Newtownards, Smallhythe, Bruges, Cheltenham, Eastbourne and Exeter.

On 21st May 2012 it will be seen at the Rock Inn in Kemp Town, Brighton (www.rockinnbrighton.co.uk), in a one-night-only performance as part of the Brighton Five Pound Fringe (http://groupspaces.com/BrightonFivePoundFringe).

The show will commence at 8pm.

Click here to find out more about the show.

Click here to see an excerpt.

Click here to see the trailer.

Click here to read the reviews.

Hearty thanks to Simon Taylor for production photography and to Tim Pieraccini for masterminding the Youtube project.