In 1964, Leo Genn appeared in the London production, directed by Margaret Webster.
It was staged in San Francisco in 1955 and in Europe in 1958, including an adaptation by Andre Obey in Paris. Rose wrote several variations on his own stage adaptation of the teleplay.ĭramatic rights to the film were sold and several versions based on the film were staged. The play by the Ljubljana Drama Theatre in 1959 The characters are unnamed throughout their deliberation, not a single juror calls another by his name, and they are identified in the script merely by number. The one dissenter gradually wins over the other jurors to a unanimous not-guilty verdict, by questioning the reliability of the evidence presented in court and exposing his fellow jurors' prejudices. Several of the jurors have different reasons for discriminating against the defendant: his race, his background, and the troubled relationship between one juror and his own son. In the jury room, they begin to become acquainted with the personalities of their peers. The jury is further instructed that a guilty verdict will be accompanied by a mandatory death sentence. (In the justice systems of nearly all American states, failure to reach a unanimous verdict, a so-called " hung jury", results in a mistrial.) The case at hand pertains to whether a young man murdered his own father. As in most American criminal cases, the twelve men must unanimously decide on a verdict of "guilty" or "not guilty".
The story begins after closing arguments have been presented in the homicide case, as the judge is giving his instructions to the jury. At the beginning, they have a nearly unanimous decision of guilty, with a single dissenter of "undecided", who throughout the play sows a seed of reasonable doubt. The drama depicts a jury forced to consider a homicide trial. Staged first in San Francisco in 1955, the Broadway debut came 50 years after CBS aired the play, on October 28, 2004, by the Roundabout Theatre Company at the American Airlines Theatre, where it ran for 328 performances.
Twelve Angry Men is a play by Reginald Rose adapted from his 1954 teleplay of the same title for the CBS Studio One anthology television series.
For other productions, see Twelve Angry Men.Ī courthouse drama: a boy's life at stake in the hands of the juryġ954, late summer in a court jury room, New York City, New York
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