{"id":1317,"date":"2012-08-04T15:29:41","date_gmt":"2012-08-04T18:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=1317"},"modified":"2023-07-09T14:50:47","modified_gmt":"2023-07-09T17:50:47","slug":"twelve-angry-men-one-terrific-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=1317","title":{"rendered":"Twelve Angry Men, One Terrific Play."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/219720_349998231743081_1761992649_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1318\" title=\"219720_349998231743081_1761992649_o\" src=\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/219720_349998231743081_1761992649_o-300x119.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"119\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/219720_349998231743081_1761992649_o-300x119.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/219720_349998231743081_1761992649_o-1024x407.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/219720_349998231743081_1761992649_o.jpg 1142w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">twelve angry men<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lions Den Theatre\u2019s production of Reginald Rose\u2019s 1955 play <em>Twelve Angry Men<\/em> is a hot and intense look into the jury deliberations on the fate of a nineteen year old on death row accused of murdering his father. Originally considered an \u201copen and shut\u201d case for finding him guilty, one juror\u2019s reasonable doubt causes the other eleven to re-examine the evidence as tempers flare and all the facts of the case come under burning scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director Keith Morrison places the action in the middle of the Bus Stop Theatre, with the audience sitting on three sides around the twelve jurors, which increases the imagery that these men are in a pressure cooker, set apart from the rest of the world, but with it encroached on them, waiting for their decision. Morrison doesn\u2019t get bogged down with sets or props, keeping things very simple, which hooks the audience\u2019s attention on the ensemble of actors and there is a feast of fascination to watch. I barely blinked for 80 minutes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This ensemble works beautifully together and is comprised of twelve marvellously strong performances and interesting personality dynamics. Playwright Reginald Rose has constructed this play so that the audience is only given tiny glimpses into the windows of the lives of these twelve men, and we are, I think, encouraged to make judgements on each of them based on the little information we are able to discern. This, of course, mirrors the experience of the jurors, who are given only select information about the lives of the defendant, the victim and each witness in the trial and are expected to make informed decisions based on their own inferences, assumptions and subjective opinions. It is also interesting that since Rose does not name the defendant or the victim and just offers us the bare bones of a relatively simple, although cruel, crime, that the audience becomes less interested in what \u201cactually\u201d happened to the father and far more invested in who will win the standoff of Guilt versus Innocence in the Jury Room led by Juror Three and Juror Eight.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ira Henderson plays Juror Three, and it is interesting that this is a British play because Henderson\u2019s portrayal of this character and the way Rose has written it seemed very \u201cRepublican American\u201d to me. Hotheaded, rash, and resolute in his initial opinion, with a fear of delving too far into facts or thinking too much with a bullying violent streak, Henderson\u2019s Three is a composite of figures that will likely be familiar to you from Fox News. Henderson\u2019s performance is flawless and perfectly matched by Daniel Gervais\u2019 Juror Eight, articulate and smooth, whose probing mind connects dots the audience cannot foresee and advocates on behalf of justice, fairness and exploring all available options. Both men must convince the other ten of their point of view or else admit defeat as a hung jury.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">All twelve actors give performances well worth seeing especially Shawn Maggio, as the stammering and sheepish Two, Dan Bray, who is reminiscent of an Astor or a Vanderbilt as Four, Mark Penny who pulls on the heartstrings gorgeously as Nine and Pasha Ebrahimi who is all dignity as Eleven.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In all <em>Twelve Angry Men<\/em> is a beautifully polished, intensely captivating production by Lions Den Theatre showcasing some of Halifax\u2019s most promising and exciting theatre artists. You\u2019ll be mad if you miss it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>Lions Den Theatre&#8217;s Twelve Angry Men<\/em> plays at the Bus Stop Theatre (2203 Gottingen Street, Halifax) until Sunday August 5th, 2012. Performances on Saturday August 4th and Sunday August 5th at 2:00pm and 8:00pm.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Tickets are $15 General and $12 Students\/Seniors\/Artists.\u00a0For tickets or information, please contact lionsdentheatre@gmail.com. If you have already seen the show, you are able to go again for only $5.00. 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