Adapted by Sherman Sergel. Based on the Emmy award-winning television movie by Reginald Rose.  The Black Arts & Cultural Center (BACC) will present the stage production of “12 Angry Women” at the Whole Art Theatre Studio, located at 246 North Kalamazoo, Mall in downtown Kalamazoo on May 1 - 2, at 8:00 p.m. and May 3 at 3:00 p.m. 

A 19-year-old boy has just stood trial for the fatal stabbing of his father. "He doesn't stand a chance," mutters the guard as the 12 jurors are taken into the bleak jury room. It looks like an open-and-shut case—until one of the jurors begins opening the others' eyes to the facts. "This is a remarkable thing about democracy, that we are notified by mail to come down to this place—and decide on the guilt or innocence of a man, of a man we have not known before. We have nothing to gain or lose by our verdict. We should not make it a personal thing." But personal it does become, with each juror revealing her own character as the various testimonies are re-examined, the murder is re-enacted and a new murder threat is born before their own eyes! Tempers get short, arguments grow heated, and the jurors become twelve angry women. The jurors' final verdict and how they reach it will electrify you and add up to a fine, mature piece of dramatic literature, an experience you don’t want to miss.