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The Andersonville Trial
February 12-27, 2010
Event to be held at Elgood Theater
THE ANDERSONVILLE TRIAL
Would you risk your job by not following an order you knew was wrong?
A man is prosecuted for Civil War crimes. His trial challenges every citizen, whether Union or Confederate, to leave a tragic past and move toward a hopeful future.
Washington, D.C. 1865. Following the brutality of the Civil War, the relentless questions of “why” and “how” are being asked by a broken nation, grasping desperately to heal itself. Why was the Andersonville prisoner-of-war camp, commanded by Confederate Captain Henry Wirz, merely a stockade providing no adequate shelter? Why did he not object to the starvation and neglect of his own countrymen? How could Wirz stand by as, by his own account, a hundred Union soldiers died each day under his watch? Taken from actual trial transcripts, this gripping play asks when a person’s responsibility to their conscience surpasses the demands of power or authority.
A conversation with the creative team will follow each performance.
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