HAYWOOD: (to the audience) And that was...
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At the opening of the play, the nine Scottsboro Boys appear on the stage. Some are dressed in coveralls; others in the garments worn by poor people in the 1930s. The stage is bare except for the props (many kept in a large trunk) needed to present their travelling “vaudeville” show – which is unlike any traditional vaudeville show. Rather it will be their reenacting of events from what, in the early 1930s, was their nationally followed courtroom case. The excerpt below commences after the
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HAYWOOD: (to the audience) And that was that. That there's the whole story.
CLARENCE: You wish.
(A beat.)
ANDY: Come to find, when we pull into the next town, they got the sheriff and every farmer in the county surroundin' that train, with rifles and shotguns.
HAYWOOD: Those white boys had gone cryin' to the law in whatever place it was where they'd jumped
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