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| | Twelve Angry Men - New York Magazine Theater Review |
 | | Such a fate may overtake Reginald Rose’s Twelve Angry Men, which began as a teleplay, was expanded into a movie, underwent several stage versions, and now takes flight at the American Airlines Theater as a classic in the making. |
 | | It tells of how a lone holdout at a murder trial, Juror 8, staunchly standing by his reasonable doubt in face of underwhelming evidence, confronts eleven other jurors who, convinced that a 16-year-old boy is guilty of killing his father, are ready to condemn him to what in 1954 was a mandatory death sentence. |
 | | Rose manages to make the dozen jurors both universal, by refusing so much as to name them, and sharply individual with remarkably few but subtle strokes—by their vocabulary, by some idiosyncratic character trait, by their laconism or volubility. |
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