AUDITION DATES: 10/11 and 10/12 at 7 pm

THIS IS A READERS’ THEATRE EVENT, NOT A FULLY STAGED SHOW

LOCATION: The Studio at Twin City Players

Production Team

Director Candace Myers

Please text or email the director if you have questions (michiganmyers@gmail.com).

Guidance: Military film footage shot at one of the Concentration camps may be used for this event. The images are disturbing.

By October 16, 1946, the first of the Nuremberg trials has been concluded. The judgement against twenty-two top Nazi officials accused of war crimes is done. Twelve have been sentenced to death, including Joachim von Ribbontrop, Julias Streicher, Wilhelm Keitel, & Earnst Kaltenbrunner. Herman Goering, Reichsmarshall, has cheated the hangman by taking his own life. Seven others received prison sentences ranging from ten years to life imprisonment.

Still to come are 12 more trials of 177 diplomats, generals, SS officers, high Nazi officials, doctors, judges, directors of IG Farben, and leading German business and professional men whose cooperation was essential to the success of the Nazi conspiracy. "Judgement at Nuremberg," by Abby Mann, centers around a newly appointed American jurist, Judge Dan Haywood to the Nuremberg court; his experiences living among the postwar Germans, as well as the trial of an internationally respected German jurist, Ernst Janning.

In the context of this particular trial, this play explores how decent people came to do indecent things.

This production calls for 14 men -- ages ranging from the mid-twenties to late 70s -- and four women, ages mid-twenties to 50, though, being Readers’ Theater, these ages are not necessarily hard and fast. The role of Ernst Janning has been pre-cast.