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Compelling insights into the unhealed wounds of the Vietnam war
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The Trial of Jane Fonda
Park Theatre
London N4
4/5
IN 1988 Jane Fonda met a group of 26 Vietnam war veterans who were attempting to curtail her attempts at filming Stanley and Iris with Robert De Niro in Connecticut.
That meeting is the spark for Terry Jastrow’s meticulously researched play, which involved multiple trips to Vietnam and interviewing Fonda in person. The result is an intriguing insight into the deep wounds left behind by the Vietnam war.
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