How Do You Make ‘Twelve Angry Men’ Relevant In 2019? Cast Six White And Six Black Jurors

Director Sheldon Epps: “There is language in this play that you may have heard in a CNN report the night before. … It’s always been about racial issues; we’re just heightening what [the playwright] wrote about. He was specifically writing about how the American justice system is different for white Americans than it is for Americans of color.” — The Washington Post