A Review Of 'God's Country' By Steven Dietz Play

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Steven Dietz’s play “God’s Country,” presents a full range of racial hatred. The play follows the true story of a white supremacist group similar to Nazi’s that operated in the United States in the 1980s.
The group participated in a variety of crimes like, robbery and forgery to fundraise for its goals and schemes. The Order plotted many assassinations of important Jewish public figures. Several members of The Order, however, were eventually convicted of the murder of a Denver Jewish radio talk show host Alan Berg, who becomes the focus of the play. The full spectrum of racial hate in this play is placed in the audience by moving from intense interactions between Order members and their families, to Order ceremonies and actual transcripts of courtroom interrogation.
The play moves in an increasingly intense montage of scenes that lead up to the conviction of nine Order members. A little research informs that many of the members portrayed in the play are still serving jail sentences today. Considering the play was not easy to watch, it must have been just as difficult to perform. Go...

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