God's Country
by Steven Dietz

Name: God's Country
Brand: Steven Dietz
SKU: 9780573691584
Rating: 3.93 (9 reviews)

God's Country Book Cover — God's Country Cover

Highlights

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120 mins 1980s Ensemble Cast Unit Set/Multiple Settings Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes

Synopsis

This exciting, highly theatrical docudrama is about the growing white supremacist movement in America, those dedicated to violent revolution and the expulsion from "God's Country" of non Aryans.

The play covers all of the right wing lunatic fringe while focusing on three narrative spines: the trial in Seattle of a paramilitary group which calls itself The Order; the career and death of Denver's Alan Berg, the outspoken, controversial, Jewish talk radio personality "assassinated" by The Order; and, finally, the hate filled career and death of The Order's founder, Robert Matthews.

These narratives are skillfully interwoven, sometimes non chronologically, with statistics and facts into a kaleidoscopic and highly theatrical vision.

Press Reviews

"Fast paced and emotionally gripping."
— Variety

"Dietz intends his play to disturb playgoers, to prod them into thinking seriously about the radical right as a continuing phenomenon and not just as the occasional headline or TV sound bite. It surely does that."
— Seattle Times

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
Actor Two woman, 40s	female	40s	woman, 40s
Actor Three man, 40s	—	40s	man, 40s
Actor Four woman, 30s	female	30s	woman, 30s
Actor Five man, 30s	—	30s	man, 30s
Actor Six woman, 20s	female	20s	woman, 20s
Actor Seven man, 30s	—	30s	man, 30s
Actor Eight man, 30s	—	30s	man, 30s
Actor Nine man, 20s	—	20s	man, 20s
Actor Ten man, late 20s	—	20s	man, late 20s
Boy 10-12 years old	—	10-12	10-12 years old
Actor One man, 50s	—	50s	man, 50s