... children. One of them has Down's.... and I'm not sure how they'll keep their heads above water." Through juxtaposition of characters on stage David hare reveals how brittle the system is and how it relies on prisons to feed the system so that the profession can be paid. Gerard particularly points this out. What the judges do at works has no effect on them but it can change one person's life. It shows s sometimes in the real world that innocent people like Stephen downing can be imprisoned for years for a crime that he did not commit. One person's error is another person's downfall. "These men, every one of them silver haired, judicious, informed, they will go home to their wives, to wine in fine glasses and the gossip of the bar, they will walk the streets and complain about their lives, and I. and I..." Poverty drove him to prison but ...

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