Sep. 9, 2014
The 'Trying' life and times of Francis Biddle
Francis Biddle is an icon of American (and international) legal history. And Joanna McClelland Glass' play "Trying," now playing at in Long Beach, is at turns iconoclastic and worshipful. By Alan H. Friedenthal
Alan Friedenthal
Without a doubt, Francis Biddle is an icon of American (and international) legal history. And Joanna McClelland Glass' play "Trying," now playing at the International City Theatre in Long Beach, is at turns iconoclastic and worshipful.
Theatre vérité, Glass tells the story of her own experience as Biddle's personal secretary in the final year of his life. We know it's the final year of his life because he con...
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