Staged Reading: Trying

This play depicts the final year in the life of Francis Biddle, US Attorney General under FDR and Chief Judge at the Nuremberg trials. His final years are seen through the eyes of his 25 year old assistant, Sarah Shor. She is the latest and coincidentally the last in a long and unsuccessful line of personal secretaries, all of whom have disappointed Biddle in some way. Much of the story revolves around issues of aging and the breakdown of communication over divisions of age and class.