As we invite student writers and sponsoring professors to submit work from last spring or this fall, we continue our tour of some standouts from CTW Vol. 19!
“The Haymarket Trial,” written for the class Theater of Law ( THE 3000 ID / LAW 3000 ID), is a dramatic interpretation of a key event in the history of American radical politics. Co-written by Rebecca Armand, James Adesman, Claire Lacza, and Karmen Wu, the play portrays the events leading up to, and following, the Haymarket Square riots of 1886, in which labor unrest and clashes with police led to an explosion that killed several policemen. The students’ play moves its audience through an array of scenes, including the trial of the Chicago anarchists blamed for the explosion.
Because plays are meant to be seen and heard, the students’ script offers an example of how words can serve the creative process in other forms of media. To that end, this publication of “The Haymarket Trial” is accompanied by images throughout that depict how the play would look if staged. In a first for this publication, it also features an AI-assisted audio adaptation of the play, complete with a different voice for each of the cast of characters!
Read “The Haymarket Trial” and listen to the accompanying audio here!
Happy reading, and happy writing,
The Editors
