Audience participation cannot save a trial that suffocates in abstractionCan the theatre be a courtroom? A good public place to debate morality and to arrive at profound decisions. You could answer this with a history lesson that ranges from the ancient Greeks to more recent tribunal plays in the 1960s and 1990s. But I'll just concentrate on Ferdinand von Schirach's Terror, which premiered simultaneously in Berlin an…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:33PM on June 22, 2017