Arendt’s book is about “a mountain of evidence”.
Her book is 250 pages, but the thousands of pages transcripts and documents presented in the trial, which she reviewed, are present in her writing. The mountain of evidence is an important part of her account of the trial, so that needs to be represented in our show somehow, without being too boring or longer than 90 minutes.
I had the idea for an editing strategy I’m calling “Mountain of Evidence poems”.
It’s a stack of folders, “Madagascar”, “Nisko”, “Theresienstadt”. You don’t have to hear what’s in that folder, but you know there its filled with damning evidence.