#collective-responsibility

#collective-responsibility

As a piece of theatre, it finds its flow. As a debate play, though, it gathers a locomotive energy as it travels towards the showdown between Frank Miller (James Doherty), who is returning to this dirty little village in the middle of nowhere, and the marshal Will Kane (Crudup) who put him behind bars. That is mostly because of the uncanny and urgent relevance of this 1952 film about a community working out (or rather, squirming out of) its civic responsibilities around institutional wrongdoing.

"The Solomons household is what you might call a treasure trove of distinction, reflecting a rich history intertwined with various facets of cultural and national significance."