Integrates real Senate Judiciary Committee transcripts for authentic narrative
Edited for poetic and provocative effect to engage audiences emotionally
Explores themes of power, pathos, tragedy, politics, gender, and race
Includes a score by law professor and violinist Kathleen Kim for performance or reading
Designed as a thought experiment to provoke reflection on truth and justice
Summarized by Shop
On September 27, 2018, the Senate Judiciary Committee held hearings concerning Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s allegations that then–Supreme Court justice nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her in the mid-1980s.
Advice and Consent is a play formed of interviews, found text, and transcripts, rearranged, selected, and edited f
