Advice and Consent

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, rearranged, selected, and edited for poetic and provocative effect. The drama is designed as a thought experiment about power, pathos, tragedy, politics, gender, race, and truth. Accompanied by a score written by law professor and violinist Kathleen Kim, it may be either read or performed.