Trivia

A cinematic adaptation of the theatre production of the Toronto Workshop, directed on stage by George Luscombe.

The film THE GREAT CHICAGO CONSPIRACY CIRCUS began when a group of actors from a repertory theatre, who were friends, decided to stage a play about the trial being held in Chicago against Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin and others. When they read the court records of the trial, they realized that the Chicago trial was a theatre event in its own right, shaped not only by Rubin and Hoffman with their ideas of apocalyptic theatre, but also by Judge Hoffman with the support of the public prosecutor, and that the words spoken at the trial engendered at once a comedy and a tragedy.