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TOP SECRET The Battle for the Pentagon Papers

Earphones Award Winner

by | Read by John Heard, Susan Sullivan, James Gleason, and a Full Cast

Poetry & Drama • 1.75 hrs. • Audio Program • ©

History as melodrama. This exciting production, recorded before a live audience, dramatizes the WASHINGTON POST's struggle with the Nixon administration over the publication of the Pentagon Papers. Much of the dialogue is lifted straight from the historical record. Whether or not this is accurate history, it certainly makes excellent theater, reminiscent of the agitprop (agitation/propaganda) and Living Newspaper plays of the Depression. John Rubenstein has directed his fine ensemble to play broadly and to maintain that thrill of immediacy that surely informed the actions of the actual participants. Present, too, is the humor, intentional and otherwise, that forms an important part of the story, none of it lost on a sharp and enthusiastic house. A riveting subject is given its due. Y.R. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine [Published: NOVEMBER 2008]

Library Ed. • L.A. Theatre Works • 2008

CD ISBN 9781580813877 $25.95 • Two CDs

DD ISBN multiple sources

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