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September 05, 2006

War is Kind: The 1968 Democratic Convention

War is Kind: The 1968 Democratic Convention tells the story of three women and their experience at the 1968 Democratic Convention.

Janine and Becca, freshmen at the University of Wisconsin, take a semester off to work on the McCarthy for President Campaign. Meanwhile, Amy begins her job at the National Mobilization to End the War in Vietnam's Chicago office. All three make decisions that will lead them to the heart of the riot outside the 1968 Democratic Convention.

This play is based on over 10,000 pages of government documents - including original source documents from the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence (Walker Report), FBI files relating to the 1968 election, and Chicago 7 trial transcripts.

6 male/4 female, with doubling.
Full-length Drama.

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  • Laura Axelrod is a writer and book reviewer. Her plays have been performed in California, New York and Europe.

    Her book reviews appear regularly in the Birmingham News and on the Newhouse News Service wire. Her essay on 9/11 was quoted during a lecture at London’s Bartlett School of Architecture in 2004. Other instructional articles have been used by colleges, high schools and writing groups throughout the country. She was recently quoted by Vanity Fair’s James Wolcott on the death of Norman Mailer.

    When she was 22 years old, she graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts with an MFA in Dramatic Writing. She also received her BFA in Dramatic Writing, and was awarded the John L. Golden Award for Playwright with Most Potential, and the Rod Marriott Senior Playwriting Award that same year.

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