Advice and Consent: A Play in One Act

by Yxta Maya Murray

On September 27, 2018, the Senate Judiciary Committee held hearings concerning Dr. Christine Blasey Ford's allegations that then-Supreme Court Justice nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her in the mid-1980s. Advice and Consent is a play formed of interviews, found text, and transcripts, re-arranged, selected, and edited for poetic and provocative effect. The drama is designed as a thought experiment about power, pathos, tragedy,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1940660505
• ISBN13: 9781940660509
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Los Angeles Review of Books
• Length: 60 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 7.9"
• Age Range: 17 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Grades 12 to 5