Brought to you by Belt Up and making a post-modern voyage to the Fringe this summer, The Trial follows a man swallowed by the relentless machine of bureaucracy, accused of a crime of which he is ignorant. True to form, the immersive techniques worked; after I had stopped my self-conscious giggling I was swallowed by waves of fear and guilt. The acting was predictably good (the swats) with Dominic Allen sickening the audience with his bulldozingly faultless performance and the ensemble prompting [Read more]
are worse than fascism), Stone couldn't have written The Trial of Socrates, the work of ancient Athenian muckraking that put him on the bestseller [Read more]
Impeached: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln's legacy, David O. Stewart: This book concerns the chaotic period of American history between 1865 and 1868. Lincoln had been assassinated and the Civil War was coming to a close. Andrew Johnson, a Southern Democrat, became president. He and the Republican House and Senate did not get along. Basically, the Civil War again was played out, but in the political arena. Reconstruction was the contentious issue of the day. The resulti [Read more]
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By Dennis J. Willard COLUMBUS: In Franz Kafka's The Trial, a chilling polemic against the eradication of personal rights, judicial rules and common decency, [Read more]