Salt Lake City Skyline
by Thomas Babe
Synopsis
THE STORY: The time is 1915, the place the Salt Lake City courtroom where Joe Hill, the celebrated local radical, is on trial for murder.
Obviously mistrusted by the conservative folk of his day, Hill senses that his cause is lost, even though the
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"A striking and brilliantly theatrical retelling of the trial of Joe Hill, the famous labor organizer and political radical, to whom time has granted the status of American folk hero. “The play is going to be controversial. I liked it a great deal. I admired its laconic but pungent language, the freedom of its structure, the poetry of its bones, the comprehension of its mythology.” —New York Post. “…a compelling courtroom drama…"
— The Hollywood Reporter
Publication
Salt Lake City Skyline is a American play written by Thomas Babe and published by Dramatists Play Service (1998).
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Dramatists Play Service · 1998 · 72 pp
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