Our kids loved the characters they developed. 'In this time of Covid, We were told to pick a small cast that shared the stage most of the time together. Our 8.5x11 Director’s Script will make producing your show a breeze! May be performed with a mixed cast as Twelve Angry Jurors. Notes No livestream or record and stream rights are available for this title. The jurors' final verdict and how they reach it-in tense scenes that will electrify your audience and keep them on the edge of their seats-add up to a fine, mature piece of dramatic literature, an experience you'll be proud to present.

We should not make it a personal thing.' But personal it is, 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 short, arguments grow heated, and the jurors become 12 angry men. We have nothing to gain or lose by our verdict.

'This is a remarkable thing about democracy,' says the foreign-born juror, '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. It looks like an open-and-shut case-until one of the jurors begins opening the others' eyes to the facts. 'He doesn't stand a chance,' mutters the guard as the 12 jurors are taken into the bleak jury room. Together, this provides students with an edition that situates the play in its contemporary social and dramatic contexts, while encouraging reflection on its wider thematic implications.A 19-year-old man has just stood trial for the fatal stabbing of his father. The commentary also situates the play in relation to the genre of courtroom drama, as a milestone in the development of televised drama, and as an engagement with questions of American individualism and democracy. The introduction discusses in detail the play's origins as a 1954 American television play, Rose's transformation of the piece for the stage, and Lumet's 1957 film version, identifying textual variations between these versions and discussing later significant productions.

Ideal for the student reader, the accompanying pedagogical notes include elements such as an author chronology, plot summary, suggested further reading, explanatory endnotes and questions for further study. The conflict that follows is fierce and passionate, cutting straight to the heart of the issues of civil liberties and social justice. A guilty verdict seems a foregone conclusion, but one member of the jury has the will to probe more deeply into the evidence and the courage to confront the ignorance and prejudice of some of his fellow jurors. In New York 1954, a man is dead and the life of another is at stake. The Methuen Drama Student Edition of Twelve Angry Men is the first critical edition of Reginald Rose's play, providing the play text alongside commentary and notes geared towards student readers.

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