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Chinese drama --- Chinese drama --- Crime in literature --- Legal drama, Chinese --- Legal drama, Chinese --- History and criticism --- History and criticism --- History and criticism --- Bao, Zheng,

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Theater requires artifice, justice demands truth. Are these demands as irreconcilable as the pejorative term "show trials" suggests? After the Second World War, canonical directors and playwrights sought to claim a new public role for theater by restaging the era's great trials as shows. The Nuremberg trials, the Eichmann trial, and the Auschwitz trials were all performed multiple times, first in courts and then in theaters. Does justice require both courtrooms and stages?In Staged, Minou Arjomand draws on a rich archive of postwar German and American rehearsals and performances to reveal how theater can become a place for forms of storytelling and judgment that are inadmissible in a court of law but indispensable for public life. She unveils the affinities between dramatists like Bertolt Brecht, Erwin Piscator, and Peter Weiss and philosophers such as Hannah Arendt and Walter Benjamin, showing how they responded to the rise of fascism with a new politics of performance. Linking performance with theories of aesthetics, history, and politics, Arjomand argues that it is not subject matter that makes theater political but rather the act of judging a performance in the company of others. Staged weaves together theater history and political philosophy into a powerful and timely case for the importance of theaters as public institutions.

Theater --- Trials. --- War crime trials --- Political aspects. --- Philosophy. --- Legal drama --- Political plays --- Aesthetics --- History and criticism.

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Legal drama, English. --- Fathers and sons --- Trials (Libel) --- Boys --- London (England)

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Vladimir Voinovich's Tribunal: A Courtly Comedy in Three Acts is a wildly satiric send-up of the 1960s/1970s Soviet show-trials by one of the most famous Soviet dissidents, who was also sometimes called twentieth-century Russia's 'greatest living satirist.' Based upon his reaction to the Sinyavski/Daniel trial in 1966, which caused him to begin to write scathingly critical letters to Premier Leonid Brezhnev and the Soviet Writer's Union and finally resulted in his expulsion from the Soviet Union in 1981, Voinovich's Tribunal is a monument to the Soviet dissidents of the Cold War period and a sardonic critique of the censorship and persecution of dissident writers everywhere. Following in the classical tradition of the theatre of the absurd that stretches from Aristophanes to Sartre, Frisch, and Havel, Voinovich's comedy describes the black humoresque high jinks and wildly outrageous shenanigans that dizzily unfold when an unsuspecting couple of Soviet citizens, Senya and Larissa Suspectnikoff, clutching their free tickets in their innocent hands, walk into a crowded theatre, expecting to watch a Chekhovian comedy, only to become caught up in the sinister machinations of this Soviet criminal tribunal and its madcap version of the Moscow show trials.

Legal drama. --- Attorney and client --- Courtroom drama --- Courts --- Judges --- Jury --- Justice, Administration of --- Law --- Law-related drama --- Lawyer drama --- Lawyers --- Legal plays --- Practice of law --- Trials

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A high-priced personal injury attorney represents eight families whose children died of leukemia after large corporations let toxic waste leak into the water supply in the Boston area. He puts his career, reputation and all that he owns on the line for the rights of his clients.

Legal drama. --- Feature films. --- Trials (Toxic torts) --- Groundwater --- Drinking water --- Liability for water pollution damages --- Pollution --- Law and legislation --- Contamination --- Anderson, Anne, --- Schlichtmann, Jan --- Trials, litigation, etc. --- W.R. Grace & Co --- Trials, litigation, etc.