Twelve Angry Men
L.A.Theater Works
MP3 #1 is the play. MP3 #2 is an interview with the author's (Reginald
Rose) widow.
Reginald Rose's landmark American drama was a critically acclaimed teleplay,
and went on to become a cinematic masterpiece in 1957 starring Henry
Fonda, for which Rose wrote the adaptation. A blistering character study
and an examination of the American melting pot and the judicial system
that keeps it in check, Twelve Angry Men holds at its core a deeply
patriotic belief in the U.S. legal system. The story's focal point,
known only as Juror Eight, is at first the sole holdout in an 11-1 guilty
vote. Eight sets his sights not on proving the other jurors wrong but
rather on getting them to look at the situation in a clear-eyed way
not affected by their personal biases. Rose deliberately and carefully
peels away the layers of artifice from the men and allows a fuller picture
of America, at its best and worst, to form.
The Cast:
Reginald Rose
Dan Castellaneta
Jeffrey Donovan
Hector Elizondo
Robert Foxworth
James Gleason
Kevin Kilner
Richard Kind
Alan Mandell
Rob Nagle
Armin Shimerman
Joe Spano
Steve Vinovich
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