Based on the Emmy award-winning television movie by Reginald Rose, Twelve Angry Jurors is adapted for the stage by Sherman Sergel and is presented by Paradox Players. This play picks up where newspaper articles and courtroom cable channels leave off: the jury deliberation. Held behind closed doors, no one except for the jurors -- twelve men and women -- knows how the unanimous final verdict of guilty or not guilty is decided.
A 19 year-old man has just stood trial for the fatal stabbing of his father. It looks like an open-and-shut case with no one having anything to gain or lose personally by the outcome. But, it does become 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 short, arguments grow heated and the jurors become twelve angry people.
This intense drama, under the direction of Deneen Frazier, is being performed at The First Unitarian Universalist Church of Austin, 4700 Grover Ave., two blocks south of 49th Street, between Lamar Blvd. and Burnet Rd.
Principal players include William Rene, Bob Brody, Ann Edwards, Ed Farrell, Kristen Freeman, Nancy Groblewski, Peter Hancock, Tracy Miller, Ed Nichols, Geoff Pearson, Renei Simms, and Caroline St. Denis.
The show will run the second and third weekends in November. Performances are as follows:
- Friday, November 7 at 8pm
- Saturday, November 8 at 8pm
- Sunday, November 9 at 2:30pm
- Friday November 14 at 8pm
- Saturday, November 15 at 8pm
- Sunday, November 16 at 2:30pm
by Reginald Rose, November 2003