Trial By Jury: A Case of Deportation at The Broad Stage

This participatory theater program examines the conflicting mandates of contemporary immigration policy and the precepts of constitutional freedoms. Should cherished rights and liberties be extended to non-citizens residing in the United States, and if so, do those rights supersede the ideological imperatives of political power? A short film dramatizing a deportation trial is followed by a live audience debate about the case and its underlying issues. Ultimately, the audience votes to affirm or renounce existing immigration policy.