Nat Turner in Jerusalem review " rebel's last stand fails to inspire
New York Theater Workshop, New YorkA new drama imagines the slave rebellion leader's final night in prison before being hanged. The result is a static two-hander in which the leads fail to connectIn 1831, Nat Turner, the leader of a violent slave rebellion in Virginia, was convicted of insurrection and sentenced to be "hung by the neck until you are dead! Dead! Dead." This does not seem to have troubled him unduly. T…