Defamation is a riveting courtroom drama with a twist: the audience is the jury. In this case of a striving African-American woman suing a wealthy Jewish real estate developer for defamation, the real issues on trial are race, religion and class -- all of which the audience/jury must openly untangle in order to reach a verdict. The resulting conversation comes at a critical time for an American society that's openly grappling with these issues. Written by Todd Logan (Botanic Garden), this highly charged drama comes to the Skokie Theatre.