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Kraine International, Inc. presents
Attorney For The Damned: Rock Musical
Thursday, March 13, 2008 through Wednesday, June 11, 2008
There are no senseless acts of violence among the criminally insane, because to the perpetrators, the violence makes sense. Ask their lawyer.
Length: 1 hr 30 mins
Intermission: None
Seating: General Admission
You choose your seats when you get to the theater.
A young lawyer wants to help the poor; her boss assigns her two destitute mental patients who frighten and disturb her. When she asks the judge to let her drop their cases, she is denied. Despite her struggle with her conscience, she gets them both released, only to have one of them kidnap the other characters, herself included, to judge them as God's avenging angel. Her other client emerges as a hero, sacrificing himself for others and answering the central question of the piece: "What makes a hero?"
The playwright/lyricist Denis Woychuk is a former lawyer who represented the rights of mental patients for ten years at Kirby Forensic Psychiatric Center, a maximum psychiatric hospital in New York City. His rock musical is actually a dark, symbolic treatment of his book, Attorney for the Damned (The Free Press), in which he confessed, "I live with the painful knowledge that I am somehow complicit in the horrible acts some of my clients commit after I ease their legal constraints and help get them released." |
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