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Jacqueline O Connor s thoroughly engaging Documentary Trial Plays in Contemporary American Theater is a rich resource for any student of the modern American theater tradition. Even as we gain insight into American theater as an art form, O Connor implicitly asks us to assess theater s role in matters as important as civil order, execution of justice, and the stability even the identity of the body politic we call America. William W. Demastes, Louisiana State University This thoughtful work is an important addition to the growing body of criticism on documentary theater. Equally authoritative onwhat can be learned about the law from theatrical trials and what can be learned about theatrical truth from staging it on the plane of history, Documentary Trial Plays skillfully confronts the intriguing paradoxes of its subject: more than art or less than art, factual yet fictionally constructed, reportorial and passionately engaged, traumatic and resolute. Attilio Favorini, author of Memory in Play from Aeschylus to Sam Shepard and The Gammage Project

Jacqueline O'Connor's thoroughly engaging Documentary Trial Plays in Contemporary American Theater is a rich resource for any student of the modern American theater tradition. Even as we gain insight into American theater as an art form, O'Connor implicitly asks us to assess theater's role in matters as important as civil order, execution of justice, and the stability--even the identity--of the body politic we call America. --William W. Demastes, Louisiana State University This thoughtful work is an important addition to the growing body of criticism on documentary theater. Equally authoritative on what can be learned about the law from theatrical trials and what can be learned about theatrical truth from staging it on the plane of history, Documentary Trial Plays skillfully confronts the intriguing paradoxes of its subject: more than art or less than art, factual yet fictionally constructed, reportorial and passionately engaged, traumatic and resolute. --Attilio Favorini, author of Memory in Play from Aeschylus to Sam Shepard and The Gammage Project Jacqueline O Connor s thoroughly engaging Documentary Trial Plays in Contemporary American Theater is a rich resource for any student of the modern American theater tradition. Even as we gain insight into American theater as an art form, O Connor implicitly asks us to assess theater s role in matters as important as civil order, execution of justice, and the stability even the identity of the body politic we call America. William W. Demastes, Louisiana State University This thoughtful work is an important addition to the growing body of criticism on documentary theater. Equally authoritative onwhat can be learned about the law from theatrical trials and what can be learned about theatrical truth from staging it on the plane of history, Documentary Trial Plays skillfully confronts the intriguing paradoxes of its subject: more than art or less than art, factual yet fictionally constructed, reportorial and passionately engaged, traumatic and resolute. Attilio Favorini, author of Memory in Play from Aeschylus to Sam Shepard and The Gammage Project Jacqueline O'Connor's thoroughly engaging Documentary Trial Plays in Contemporary American Theater is a rich resource for any student of the modern American theater tradition. Even as we gain insight into American theater as an art form, O'Connor implicitly asks us to assess theater's role in matters as important as civil order, execution of justice, and the stability--even the identity--of the body politic we call America. --William W. Demastes, Louisiana State University This thoughtful work is an important addition to the growing body of criticism on documentary theater. Equally authoritative on what can be learned about the law from theatrical trials and what can be learned about theatrical truth from staging it on the plane of history, Documentary Trial Plays skillfully confronts the intriguing paradoxes of its subject: more than art or less than art, factual yet fictionally constructed, reportorial and passionately engaged, traumatic and resolute. --Attilio Favorini, author of Memory in Play from Aeschylus to Sam Shepard and The Gammage Project Jacqueline O'Connor's thoroughly engaging Documentary Trial Plays in Contemporary American Theater is a rich resource for any student of the modern American theater tradition. Even as we gain insight into American theater as an art form, O'Connor implicitly asks us to assess theater's role in matters as important as civil order, execution of justice, and the stability--even the identity--of the body politic we call America. --William W. Demastes, Louisiana State University This thoughtful work is an important addition to the growing body of criticism on documentary theater. Equally authoritative on what can be learned about the law from theatrical trials and what can be learned about theatrical truth from staging it on the plane of history, Documentary Trial Plays skillfully confronts the intriguing paradoxes of its subject: more than art or less than art, factual yet fictionally constructed, reportorial and passionately engaged, traumatic and resolute. --Attilio Favorini, author of Memory in Play from Aeschylus to Sam Shepard and The Gammage Project

Jacqueline O'Connor's thoroughly engaging Documentary Trial Plays in Contemporary American Theater is a rich resource for any student of the modern American theater tradition. Even as we gain insight into American theater as an art form, O'Connor implicitly asks us to assess theater's role in matters as important as civil order, execution of justice, and the stability--even the identity--of the body politic we call America. --William W. Demastes, Louisiana State University This thoughtful work is an important addition to the growing body of criticism on documentary theater. Equally authoritative on what can be learned about the law from theatrical trials and what can be learned about theatrical truth from staging it on the plane of history, Documentary Trial Plays skillfully confronts the intriguing paradoxes of its subject: more than art or less than art, factual yet fictionally constructed, reportorial and passionately engaged, traumatic and resolute. --Attilio Favorini, author of Memory in Play from Aeschylus to Sam Shepard and The Gammage Project

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Jacqueline O’Connor is a professor of English at Boise State University and the author of Dramatizing Dementia: Madness in the Plays of Tennessee Williams

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