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...context of his great sea saga - published as a novel in 1951 and turned into a 1954 film, then this play - the court-marshal of the psycho Captain Queeg is a demonstration of what happens when real-world wartime chaos gets translated into the cool legal niceties of the courtroom. But unmoored from its seagoing prologue, all that talk about Queeg's obsession with shirttails and strawberries lacks any dramatic punch. And why make so much of the betrayal of Lt. Keefer (the egghead officer played by Fred MacMurray in the film) when he's on and off the witness...
...School this June. Though the production team has faced challenges working in what Byrne describes as a presentation space rather than a theatrical one, Andreadis argues that the Forum lends itself particularly well to “Inherit the Wind.” The play takes place in a courtroom, and much of its dialogue consists of courtroom questioning and arguments by lawyers on both sides. Andreadis adds that members of the cast playing jurors will be sitting among the audience, and attorneys will address their speeches to them. “It’s trying to blow that...
...School this June. Though the production team has faced challenges working in what Byrne describes as a presentation space rather than a theatrical one, Andreadis argues that the Forum lends itself particularly well to “Inherit the Wind.” The play takes place in a courtroom, and much of its dialogue consists of courtroom questioning and arguments by lawyers on both sides. Andreadis adds that members of the cast playing jurors will be sitting among the audience, and attorneys will address their speeches to them. “It’s trying to blow that...
Family and friends gathered in Harvard Law School’s Ames Courtroom last night to commemorate Shirin Shakir, a second-year Harvard Law student who died in a white water rafting accident in Cusco, Peru over spring break...
...wants you to believe he relied on his lawyers while at Enron, but he's not relying on them at trial," says Houston attorney Joel Androphy, author of a the textbook White Collar Crime. Lay's lead attorney, Mike Ramsey, has not returned to the courtroom after heart surgery. While his team of three attorneys, along with Lay's daughter Elizabeth Vittor, have been in charge since, Lay appears to be taking control of his defense himself. "He's thinking that he knows how to handle this," says Androphy. "You say to yourself, Is that...