Based on the Emmy award-winning television movie by Reginald Rose
Adapted for the stage by Sherman L. Sergel
Produced by special arrangement with THE DRAMATIC PUBLISHING COMPANY of Woodstock, Illinois
“This is a remarkable thing about democracy, that we are notified by mail to come down to this place-and decide on the guilt or innocence of a person; of a man or woman we have not known before. We have nothing to gain or lose by our verdict. We should not make it a personal thing.”
A 19-year-old man has just stood trial for the fatal stabbing of his father. A jury of 12 strangers are led into a bleak room, where they must come together to make a decision. It looks like an open-and-shut-case-until one of the jurors begins opening the others’ eyes to the facts. The jurors find it difficult to stick to the facts and things turn personal with each juror revealing his or her own character as the various testimonies are re-examined, the murder is re-enacted and a new murder threat is born before their eyes! Tempers get shorter, arguments grow heated, and the jurors become 12 angry men and women who must deliver an agreed upon verdict to the judge, or admit to being a hung jury.
Feb 6, 7 & 8 at 7 pm
Feb 13, 14 & 15 at 7 pm
Feb 8 & 15 at 2 pm
ASL interpreted performance Feb 15 at 7 pm
This production is in the black box. Seating is limited, and late arrivals will not be seated.