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  • ‘It has taken too long for this majestic piece to play here’
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    ‘It is an intense hundred minutes, cleverly interposing colloquial anger and argument with the measured legalities of the attorneys.’
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    ‘Mann’s verbatim play harnesses the power of real testimony’
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    ★★★★ ‘With work like this, the trains should be re-routed and the theatre stay on.’
    Reviewsgate

    November 27th 1978: Dan White shoots and kills Harvey Milk, the first openly gay American to hold elected office and George Moscone, mayor of San Francisco.

    May 21st 1979: Dan White is found not guilty of murder.

    Execution of Justice is the story of how and why it happened.

    A cast of 20 perform Emily Mann’s award-winning 1982 verbatim play – a panoramic view of a time of upheaval and change, told in words taken from trial transcripts, interviews, reportage and the street.

    Moving in and out of the courtroom and backwards and forwards in time, Execution of Justice captures a divided city in crisis and the impact of loss.

    “More than any other American writer of our time, the body of her work has demonstrated the importance of theatre to the psychic well-being and sanity of a society”
    Athol Fugard

    “One of our most urgently engaging, provocative and significant American Playwrights whose work bears witness to some of the most pressing moral issues of our time.”
    Joyce Carol Oates

    Execution Of Justice is supported by Stonewall and The Harvey Milk Foundation

  • Creative Team

    Director
    Joss Bennathan

    Designer
    James Turner

    Sound Designer
    George Dennis

    Lighting Designer
    Richard Williamson

    Associate Producer
    Jamie Hannon

    Cast

    Madeleine Bowyer
    Georgia Buchanan
    Maurice Byrne
    Doron Davidson
    Aidan Downing
    Philip Duguid-McQuillan
    Lindsay Fraser
    Thomas Grube
    Catherine Hammond
    Kate Harper
    Jasper Jacob
    Christopher Lane
    Ben Mars
    Alex McSweeney
    Mark Parsons
    John Rayment
    Michael Shane
    Joyce Veheary
    Aonghus Weber
    Peter Wiedmann

  • Thursday, 12 January

    Post Show Talk with Stuart Milk (Nephew of Harvey Milk – The Harvey Milk Foundation)

    Stuart Milk, is the nephew of the late civil rights pioneer Harvey Milk. Stuart has been a human rights activist and politcal speaker for many years. He will be talking about his uncle’s legacy and the trial of Dan White, as well as the Harvey Milk Foundation’s new ‘Beyond Tolerance’ programme.

    Friday, 27 January

    Post Show Talk with Emily Mann (Playwright)

    The multi award-winning playwright Emily Mann discusses her ground breaking verbatim play and answers questions, along with director Joss Bennathan and members of the cast. Find out Emily’s thoughts on the play, the trial, and the effect the shootings had on the community”.

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