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LAW AND ORDER: ARTISTIC INTENT
(a case in three scenes)
By Danielle Nicholson
Cast of Characters
AMERICAN LAWYER: prosecutor
ZEMBLAN LAWYER: defense attorney
JUDGE: grey and grumpy
JURY MEMBER: grey and anonymous
Scene 1 1
SETTING: A small courtroom.
TIME: August 1959, not long after John Shade’s death.
AT RISE: The JURY MEMBERS are talking amongst themselves. One
man - the ZEMBLAN LAWYER - bearded and flam-
boyantly dressed in purple velvet, majestically re-
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