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The War Crimes Trial of George W. Bush, Puppet President of the United States

by: David Koester

Publication date: 2006

Usage: Attribution-NonCommercial

Topics: iraq war, Bush, war crimes, puppet, Cheney

Rights: This is made available to the public for educational and informational purposes. The script is available for others to produce performances. Others may also add with additional research. Any use of the material in the script is permitted on the condition that users allow the same public use and extension of their material. In other words, this is intended as an open source, creative commons project. Please notify the author of any performances or rewritings of the script.

This is a digital video recording of "The War Crimes Trial of George W. Bush, Puppet President of the United States." The puppet show was performed at Out North in Anchorage, Alaska on April 1, 2006. The witness testimony in the trial is based on published reports, interviews and testimony of experts, journalists and Iraqi witnesses. The script is available at http://www.archive.org/details/WarCrimesTrialGWBushPuppetPresident.

Credits

Digital video recording by Daniel Sparks

VOICES:
John Ashcroft – Abel Bult-Ito
George W. Bush – Phil Osborn
Alberto Gonzales – David Koester
Voice off stage – Cheryl Hilmes
Ali Shalal Abbas – Abel Bult-Ito
Fatima Bekter – Cheryl Hilmes
Bailiff – Owen Mason
Prosecutor – Julie Raymond-Yakoubian
Judge – Justin Yonker
Scott Ritter – Tom Macchia
Mustafa al Mosul – Owen Mason
Fadhil al Bedrani – Chip Nordhoff
Defense Attorney – Bridget Paule
Anthony Lagouranis – David DiMatteo
Yusef Abu Nadir – Tom Macchia
Amnesty International – MJ McCall
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson – David DiMatteo
Dick Cheney – Owen Mason

PUPPETEERS:-
Claire Alix, Maïté Agopian, Abel Bult-Ito, David Koester, Suzanne Osborn

PUPPET MAKERS:-
Leatherleg, Faux-me, Drifter, Potatus –Claire Alix
Globus –David Koester
Bulby –Phil Osborn
Jötunn –Abel Bult-Ito
Uncanny –Donated by Martin & Ruta
Styro –Stacey Fritz

Tech support: Thomas Higgins

Contact Information: David Koester swarming@mosquitonet.com

Addeddate: 2007-01-10 16:27:54

Camera_operator: Daniel Sparks

Color: color

Director: David Koester

Identifier: WarCrimesTrialGWBushPuppet

Run time: 60 min., 12 sec.

Sound: sound

Sources: All witness testimony is from published sources

Year: 2006

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Reviewer: mirthink - - May 27, 2008
Subject: Note from the Author/Producer

This is not a polished performance of a professional puppet troupe. Most of the puppeteers, puppet makers and speakers were first-timers. The video recording is also not a polished or viewer-friendly production. The sound is good but it is still worthwhile to download the script to have in hand while watching. The idea for this performance came about sometime in late 2004 or early 2005. The puppet show was then first performed in Fairbanks, Alaska in January 2006. There is of course a HUGE amount of more war crimes evidence since early 2006. It was hoped that this script could provide a framework for anyone who wanted to continue putting the evidence together and contributing to getting it before the American public.

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