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The verdict is in: '12 Angry Jurors' is not to be missed

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The play takes place on a single set, a sweltering jury room where a life and death decision must be made. (ROH photo)

ROCHESTER - In a brilliant production ploy, "12 Angry Jurors", now playing at the Rochester Opera House, is played not only before its audience, but behind it, too.

The tightly wrapped, tightly woven, jury room drama tells the story of a young man on trial for murder with death the punishment if the verdict is guilty.

Now it's up to 12 men and women to decide his fate, and through their deliberation, expose all the bias, prejudice, fear and loathing that existed in 1957 ... and today.

And with the jury cast between some of the audience behind them on the stage and the rest out in the traditional seating area, we find ourselves looking at ourselves "in the mirror' as we watch this taut gut-wrenching drama.

Directed by Scott Severance and starring a solid ensemble of accomplished actors and actresses, "12 Angry Jurors" finishes its run this week with performances this Friday through Sunday.

Not since "Glengarry Glen Ross" has the Rochester Opera House presented such a heavy "play for adults" that makes every single audience member question their own issues of moral equivalency and expediency.

There's a lot of talk between jurors about "those people" and "these people" that speaks to unmasking our most visceral fears and prejudice, a conceit that rears its ugly head in those most fractured of times of the Cold War, Civil Rights and McCarthyism.

Fast forward to now, "same as it ever was."

Now wrap this milieu of human frailty, weakness and imperfection in the contagion of a jury room with a man's life at stake and watch what happens.

Here's the spoiler alert. What happens ... is high drama and grand theater.

For more info go to http://www.rochesteroperahouse.com/12-angry-jurors.html

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