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Los Angeles’ much-lauded The Actors’ Gang travels to Brisbane this September to present The Trial of the Catonsville Nine exclusively for Brisbane Festival 2009. This acclaimed script by poet priest Daniel Berrigan brings to life the dramatic 1968 trial of two catholic priests and seven fellow catholic activists who committed an act of civil disobedience. In an act of protest against the Vietnam War, The Catonsville Nine walked into a selective service office, grabbed hundreds of draft files and burned them with home-made napalm. The subsequent trial and publicity galvanised the anti-war movement. While condemned as criminals in a court of law, they were hailed as patriots in the streets. See it at Brisbane Festival 2009 from September 24–27.
