{"id":1440,"date":"2014-03-01T22:43:44","date_gmt":"2014-03-01T22:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/?p=1440"},"modified":"2025-01-13T16:56:24","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T16:56:24","slug":"due-process-hiram-bebee-alias-the-sundance-kid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/?p=1440","title":{"rendered":"Due Process: Hiram Bebee, Alias The Sundance Kid — A Play About Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Shirlee Hurst Shields<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Based on a True Story<\/p>\n

Who was the Sundance Kid?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The play is about justice on three levels. One: the ‘told’ story of the townespeople who witnessed the murder of their Marshal and their resulting vigilante justice; Two: the ‘justice unto himself’ of Hiram Bebee (The Sundance Kid), a self-styled philosopher who interpreted the law his own way; Three: the story of the court appointed lawyer who must adjudicate between the two and serve justice according to the ethics of his profession. The origin of Bebee’s moniker, ‘The Sundance Kid’ is revealed along with his times with Butch Cassidy, the Wild Bunch and their South American Odyssey. His love affair with Etta Place, who became his common-law wife and died on the Utah Prison steps after a visit. This historically accurate play reveals much more completely, the story of Hiram Bebee, The Sundance Kid, because of the information available only to the author, as her late father-in-law defended Bebee and is the model for the lawyer in this play.\u00a0 All of us are guilty of unfairly judging strangers or someone who ‘looks’ different than we do. This play also propounds something that our modern society has all but over-looked: that a man or woman is “presumed innocent until proven guilty.” Plus, the audience will serve as the Jury.\u00a0 Order # 3073<\/strong><\/p>\n

NOTE:<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The author of this play has had access to information that no other biographer, playwright or screenwriter has ever had, being the daughter of the man who was assigned to defend Hiram Be Bee. Papers and journal were culled for unique information that, once adapted to dramatic form, would make this play stand out from all other accounts.<\/p>\n

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