Defamation September 22, 2012

Todd Logan’s powerful courtroom drama challenges the audience to examine their own feelings about race, class, religion and the law as they become the jury. Set in a courtroom, “Defamation” presents two sides of a case in which an professional African American woman from the south side is on trial for stealing a family heirloom from the home of a North Shore Jewish businessman. Once the testimony is presented, the Judge calls on the audience to decide case.

“A brilliant, shifting jigsaw puzzle of a courtroom drama. DEFAMATION holds the audiences' own prejudices under a powerful lens . . . No one escapes the jury’s deliberations unchanged.” -- Rabbi Debra Kassoff