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Based on The Playmaker, a recent novel by Thomas Keneally which in turn is based on events which took place in Australia in 1789, Wertenbaker's play focuses on a convict colony in Sydney...
...casting follows the plan adopted by the director of the original production at the Royal Court Theatre in London, with each actor playing two roles--an officer and a convict...
...Murdered" by either her fiance Adam the Producer, Peter the P.A. or Maria the Model, Zora--an eccentric writer--returns from her sabbatical in the afterlife to question, condemn and convict her killer. Conducted in Zora's kitchen, the trial commences as each defendent emerges from the monstrous meat locker in the back--handcuffed to a large coat rack--to give his or her rendition of the events leading up to the "murder...
Democrats called it a tough crime bill, civil libertarians said it was draconian and Republicans said it would make it harder to convict wrongdoers...
There has been little apparent pattern to the fires, which have struck at a variety of denominations and at churches with both black and white congregations. A few days after the Gainesville fire, Florida police arrested an ex-convict from Chattanooga, Tenn., on charges of loitering in the area, but say he is only one of many suspects. State and federal investigators believe that while many of the fires are the work of just one or two arsonists, others may be copycat crimes. In that case, Florida churchgoers may have to bed down in the pews for some time...