Word: courtrooms
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...with Gross Indecency, a recent play staged for the first time in 1997. Its runs in New York City and San Francisco have kept the professional theater community buzzing about the play's strength not only as a piece of theater but also about the difficulty of sustaining a courtroom drama whose energy comes from rhetoric rather than action...
...actors are successful in leading the audience in a trip through Wilde's memory. Lighting changes mark the transition of time, distinguish between locations and mark the importance of each speech through a clever system of backlights and spots. We may never leave the physical space of the courtroom, but the lights guide the audience to hotels, ship galleys, restaurants and private dwellings...
...Florida litigants, in a paneled courtroom in Leon County, labored late into the night, focusing their final arguments on the legitimacy of manual recounts, and where they were more reliable than machine tabulations...
...When the political process enters the courtroom, the truth becomes malleable, corruptible, ultimately unknowable. This is American politics in a state of deconstruction - a form of postmodernist cardsharking...
...This was a decisive setback for the Gore team - but it wasn't necessarily fatal. Five minutes after the opinion was read, Boies had positioned himself outside the courtroom, promising an appeal and shaking a verbal fist in Sauls' direction. "This ruling comes without the judge having reviewed one ballot," he said indignantly. "We have said from the beginning of all this that we believe citizens have a right to see their votes counted," he proclaimed...