2 - Acting Edition (Acting Edition for Theater Productions) - Softcover

Romulus Linney

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0822214865 ISBN 13: 9780822214861

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc., 1993

Synopsis

April, 1945. The Nuremberg War Crimes Trials against the leaders of Nazi Germany are about to begin. Hermann Goering, in the place of Adolf Hitler, leads the accused and with his German counsel, prepares his defense. Drug free and healthy from a spartan imprisonment, Goering is once again the formidable man who more than any other made Hitler Chancellor of Germany and built the engines of the Third Reich. He defies the Tribunal with wit and ferocity, refuses to blame Hitler for his actions, denies the right of any conqueror to fairly prosecute the conquered, and foretells a disturbing future for crimes of war. As the horrors of what he is responsible for come to light, he demonically refuses to accept them as anything but the natural consequences of human conflict, and after manipulating his own suicidal escape from hanging, asks the audience, "What do you think men are?"

Edition details

• Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0822214865
• ISBN 13: 9780822214861
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 72