A Time to Kill: Rupert Holmes’s totally unnecessary adaptation of John Grisham’s 1989 novel, in which the audience of Gotham yuppies and wealthy tourists are invited to sneer at the horrors of racism in the rural South by way of a couple of really loathsome stage tricks, including the casting of the audience as the jury in the trial for the murder of a black man (the estimable John Douglas Thompson, who deserves much better) who has killed the two rednecks who raped his 10-year-old daughter because he knows they won’t get the death penalty. ...The sound you hear at the end of the show is not applause, it’s the audience patting itself on the back.
Posted on: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 17:58:34 +0000
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