Agenda 9 November 2015
1. Pick up a study guide from
the table.
2. Get a book of plays from the
shelf.
3. Cast the play.
4. Begin reading on pp. 218
Need to Know Vocabulary
1.Premeditated (219)
2.Homicide (219)
3.Reasonable Doubt (220)
4.Unanimous (220)
5.Abstain (231)
TWELVE ANGRY MEN BACKGROUND
•Written by Reginald Rose originally as
a teleplay for CBS in 1954.
•The play was inspired by Rose’s own
experience of jury duty on a
manslaughter case in New York City.
•Reluctant to be on the jury until “the
moment I walked into the courtroom…
and found myself facing a strange
man whose fate was suddenly more
or less in my hands, my entire attitude
changed.”
Reginald Rose
1920-2002
CAST OF CHARACTERS
THE
MINOR
JURY
CHARACTERS
Foreman* Juror #7
Judge
Juror #2
Juror #8*
Clerk
Juror #3*
Juror #9
Guard
Juror #4
Juror #10
Juror #5
Juror #11
Narrator of
Juror #6
Juror #12
Stage
*Indicates major role
Directions