Abby Mann

Historical Drama

15m, 4f

Simple Set (locations simply suggested); optional projections and slides.

Maximilian Schell and George Gizzard starred on Broadway in the powerful stage version of an Academy Award winning film. Ernest Janning, one of the most influential German legal minds of the pre war era, and other influential Nazis face a military tribunal in the second wave of post war trials at Nuremberg. Issues at the forefront of this trial reverberate through history and challenge humanity to this day.

"A powerful work of art." -The Associated Press

"Gives oratory the muscle, sweat and high stakes of a last man standing prize fight." -The New York Times

"A magnificent re enactment of the seminal trials of the modern era." -Newsweek

"Retains its power to move and provoke us." -Time

"A powerhouse." - Newsday

"Amazing. For once you won't feel dramatically undernourished." - Journal News

"A marvelous courtroom drama." -WOR

"Powerful, potent, gripping edge of the seat drama." -Walter Cronkite

"Incisive, blistering, thought provoking...Crises out powerfully to our own time in countless ways." -Chicago Sun Times

FEE: $75 per performance.