"Peace Crimes: the Minnesota 8 vs. the war"

Cast Size - Ideal for Collegiate Theatre

• ensemble format, 14 roles
• main male and female character
• supporting roles:
• Black Panthers (Fred Hampton and wife)
• Vietnam Veterans
• Daniel Ellsberg, "Pentagon Papers"
• a mother of one of the "Eight"
• Catholic theologian
• "Agent Orange" biologist
• trial judges
• draft board secretaries

• timely and relevant - issues of war and protest
• focus on "young people" and how they resisted what they determined was an immoral war
• shows conflicts among anti-war activists - between mother and son ... between leading man and woman
• presents controversy of times - includes countering view of trial judges, secretaries of the raided draft boards, condemning public opinion

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