The Chicago Conspiracy Trial
Reality is stranger than fiction when seven 1960's radicals refuse to behave in Judge Julius Hoffman's courtroom. Based on actual trial transcripts and starring a cast of top Chicago actors, this Peter Goodchild play centers on events following the protests and riots during the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago. A BBC and WFMT co-production.
An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring:
Tom Amandes as Richard Schultz
George Czarnecki as Mayor Daley/Marshal
Christine Dunford as Woman #1
Richard Fire as Allen Ginsberg
Kevin Gudahl as Judge Hoffman
Gary Houston as Tom Hayden
Tony Mockus as Thomas Foran
George Murdock as David Dellinger
Mike Nussbaum as William Kuntsler
Peggy Roeder as Woman #2
David Schwimmer as Abbie Hoffman
Jeff Still as Leonard Wineglass
Ron West as Deputy Mayor Stahl/Hunt
Ed Wheeler as Bobby Seale
Andrew White as Pierson/Frapolly
Directed by Martin Jenkins and John Theocaris. Recorded before a live audience at the Guest Quarters Suite Hotel, Chicago in May of 1993.
