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The Rant
Andrew Case
Voir Dire
by Joe Sutton
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Synopsis
THE STORY: A prominent black man is arrested for buying crack.
His lawyer says he was framed, set up by a racist white cop.
It is left to a jury of six (as is the case in misdemeanors and many civil cases in New York State), a racially mixed group
Press Reviews
"Sutton…is capable of focusing a viewer's attention in ways news cannot. Rather than pouring over the facts of the case, Sutton concentrates on the way the facts are interpreted by the members of the jury—how they are colored, as it were, by each individual's life experiences…The play also demonstrates that the notion of a jury of one's peers is not as simple as it sounds. In a society divided by race and class, one's peers can be difficult, if not impossible, to identify."
— Variety
Publication
Publisher Dramatists Play Service
Year 1996
Binding Paperback
Pages 72
Place New York
Language English
ISBN-13 9780822215240
ISBN-10 0822215241
LCCN 96182921
LCC PS3569.U892 V65 1996
DCC 812/.54
Voir Dire is a American play written by Joe Sutton and published by Dramatists Play Service in New York (1996).
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