Kansas City Morality Play Review: Judgement At Nuremberg Reprise

Nothing is going to be as good as the movie . . . For those who can afford it, there's always something magical about watching performers practice their craft in real life.

Here's the premise and setup of the EXCEPTIONAL source material now playing in Kansas City:

"The play centers on three main characters. One is Dan Heyward, a retired American District Court Judge called to lead a panel of three non-biased jurists in the trial of three NAZI era judicial officials.  The second is a German Judge named Ernst Janning. Janning had once sat in the chair similar to America’s Attorney General during pre-NAZI days.  The third character is a youngish defense attorney named Oscar Rolfe, a volunteer defender of the estimable Ernst Janning. Janning initially refuses to recognize the authority of the court.

"It is two years since the end of the war in Europe.  The scope of the evil that was done has become clear.  The question facing the court is how far down into the German bureaucracy must consequences for the German people reach?"

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Review: JUDGEMENT AT NUREMBERG at MET's Warwick Theatre

"Judgement at Nuremberg" at Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre's (MET) Warwick Theatre is a fictional rendering of the 1947 Judge's War Crime Trial held at Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany. "Judgement at Nuremberg" is a painful remembrance of an attempt to both punish those accountable for the barbarisms committed in the name of the German state and to be consciously impartial in the administration of an accused's trial rights.