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Inspired by the pioneering work of Dr Jenny Scott, this immersive play transforms Traverse 1 into a courtroom where barriers are deconstructed and jurors take centre stage.
We tune in to the thoughts, fears and anxieties of fifteen jurors, selected from the audience, as they struggle to stay focused in a high profile murder trial. What does ‘beyond reasonable doubt’ actually mean? Why do the advocates sometimes talk in Latin? Why is all the evidence presented in an illogical order?
Peter the Judge is disaffected. For years he has watched as the jurors struggled with understanding the complexities of evidence and cross-examination. Maybe it’s time for a change, for an experiment in democracy.
Grid Iron bring their 21 year-old multi-award winning expertise in immersive and audience-centred work to bear on the dynamics of a courtroom; re-imagining the architecture, the subtle oppressions and the failure to deal with prejudice.
The end result is fascinatingly drawn out fanfare for the common man and woman that puts the judicial system in the dock and finds it wanting.
This intriguing play gets you thinking and raises important questions for which there are, as yet, no answers.
It’s an exciting, witty and thrillingly open-ended piece of drama about what we mean by justice, and how we can achieve something closer to it; presented with all the flair, elegance and sense of spectacle that is Grid Iron’s hallmark.
Jury Play asks questions about existing legal conventions and whether they enable or actually scupper justice.
Grid Iron's examination of Scottish justice.
Grid Iron, Ben Harrison and Dr Jenny Scott--Jury Play
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh from Tuesday October 3, 2017, until Saturday October 7, 2017. More info: www.traverse.co.uk