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“Truth will out”: Politics, religion, and gender in Daniel Berrigan’s The Trial of the Catonsville Nine

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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Theater
Theater techniques

Abstract

This paper investigates how Daniel Berrigan, the playwright-cum-protagonist of The Trial of the Catonsville Nine (1970), sets out to use theatre as a podium, at a time of great political turmoil, to provide the facts of what is going on in the Vietnam War. In doing so, he documents the facts using the tribunal theatre, a genre derived from documentary theatre. Mary Canal's theory of Inclusionary and Exclusionary otherness, as expounded in her article “Othering: Toward Understanding of Difference," is adopted as a methodology. The paper attempts to find answers to the following questions: How are documentary theatre and its offshoot tribunal theatre used as revolutionary theatres? What are the forms of othering present in the play? How is gender bias present even in resistance? How does religion become an underlying cause for Inclusionary othering? The paper concludes that politics, religion, and gender are fused in the experience of the tribunal theatre of the Vietnam War.

DOI

10.21608/jltmin.2023.323511

Keywords

Berrigan, The Trial of the Catonsville Nine, tribunal theatre, Mary Canales, Othering

Authors

First Name

Shireen

Last Name

Abdou

MiddleName

Hassan Hassan

Affiliation

English Department, Faculty of Al-Alsun, Minia University, Egypt

Email

shireen.hassan@mu.edu.eg

City

المنيا

Orcid

Shireen Hassan

Volume

10

Article Issue

4

Related Issue

44108

Issue Date

2023-10-01

Receive Date

2023-10-28

Publish Date

2023-10-01

Page Start

51

Page End

63

Print ISSN

2735-4520

Online ISSN

2735-4539

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https://jltmin.journals.ekb.eg/article_323511.html

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323,511

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1,567

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Publication Title

Journal of Languages and Translation

Publication Link

https://jltmin.journals.ekb.eg/

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“Truth will out”: Politics, religion, and gender in Daniel Berrigan’s The Trial of the Catonsville Nine

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27 Dec 2024