Title: The Trial of God
Content:  A core concern in both The Trial of God and the book of Job is the theodicy question: how (if at all) can people understand God to be just and good in light of the innocent suffering pervasive in the world? As Robert McAfee Brown expresses the issue, "Surely any God worthy of the name would not only refuse to condone such brutality but would expend all of the divine effort necessary to bring the brutality to a halt, and initiate the work of passionate rebuilding." The issue emerges forcibly in the book of Job, since God is incited "to destroy [Job] for no reason".
Title: God on Trial
Content:  God on Trial is a 2008 British television play written by Frank Cottrell-Boyce, starring Antony Sher, Rupert Graves and Jack Shepherd. The play takes place in Auschwitz during World War II. The Jewish prisoners put God on trial in absentia for abandoning the Jewish people. The question is whether God has broken his covenant with the Jewish people by allowing the Germans to commit genocide. It was produced and shown by the BBC on 3 September 2008. Production was supported by PBS, which screened the play as part of its Masterpiece anthology. The play is based on an event described by Elie Wiesel in his book The Trial of God, though Cottrell-Boyce describes this tale as "apocryphal". According to Cottrell-Boyce, producer Mark Redhead "had been trying to turn the story into a film for almost 20 years by the time he called me in 2005 to write the screenplay." However, Wiesel later confirmed that the story was true, and that he was personally witness to it.
Title: The Trial of God
Content:  In introducing the setting for the play, Wiesel gives us an idea of the provenance of the din torah / trial concept: "Its genesis: inside the kingdom of night, I witnessed a strange trial.  Three rabbis—all erudite and pious men—decided one winter evening to indict God for allowing his children to be massacred. I remember: I was there, and I felt like crying. But nobody cried." Robert McAfee Brown elaborates on this strikingly bleak description: "The trial lasted several nights. Witnesses were heard, evidence was gathered, conclusions were drawn, all of which issued finally in a unanimous verdict: the Lord God Almighty, Creator of Heaven and Earth, was found guilty of crimes against creation and humankind. And then, after what Wiesel describes as an "infinity of silence", the Talmudic scholar looked at the sky and said "It's time for evening prayers", and the members of the tribunal recited Maariv, the evening service."
Title: The Trial of God
Content:  The idea of suing God is not unique. In 2008, Nebraska State Senator Ernie Chambers filed suit against God, seeking a "permanent injunction ordering Defendant to cease certain harmful activities and the making of terroristic threats". In fiction, writers such as Fyodor Dostoyevsky have taken up the motif.
Title: The Trial of God
Content:  The Trial of God (as it was held on February 25, 1649, in Shamgorod) (Le procès de Shamgorod tel qu'il se déroula le 25 février 1649, first published in English in 1979 by Random House) is a play by Elie Wiesel about a fictional trial ("Din-Toïre", or דין תּורה) calling God as the defendant. Though the setting itself is fictional, and the play's notes indicate that it "should be performed as a tragic farce", he based the story on events he witnessed first-hand as a teenager in Auschwitz. The play was reimagined for television in God on Trial by Frank Cottrell Boyce.
Title: God on Trial
Content:  Reviews were overwhelmingly positive. Sam Wollaston in The Guardian found it "powerful and thoughtful stuff, with some fine performances by some fine actors - Antony Sher, Rupert Graves, Dominic Cooper." Remarking that Cottrell-Boyce wrote the piece from a position of personal faith, James Walton in The Telegraph observed, "Yet, as each of the characters put forward a different view on the question of God and suffering, it was clear that he was willing to interrogate his beliefs with real ferocity." This was a complex piece, and "as the fierceness of the intellectual and emotional grip tightened, it was impossible to 
Title: The Trial of God
Content:  The Trial of God was premiered by Bucket Productions at the Bath House Cultural Center in Dallas, Texas on February 2, 2000. It premiered in New York City for the first time as part of The UnConvention: An American Theater Festival, which was held during the 2004 Republican National Convention. It was produced by Stone Soup Theatre Arts and ran from August 27, 2004 through September 11, 2004 at the Abingdon Theater Arts Complex. It also appeared in New York City on March 31, 2007 at the Makor Theatre and featured "traditional dancers from the Kalaniot Dance Troupe and Klezmer musicians from KlezMITron." Was actually premiered in the presence of Elie Weisel at Yuba Community College in 1981 under the direction of David Wheeler.
Title: God on Trial
Content:  God on Trial aired on BBC2 on Wednesday 3 September 2008 and on PBS in the Masterpiece Contemporary strand on 9 November 2008.
Title: The Trial of God
Content:  In a provocative twist, Wiesel conflates Sam (i.e., the Devil) with Job's friends (Eliphaz, Bildad, Zophar) from the Hebrew Bible. In the book of Job, the friends provide the voices of theodicy—namely, the ones insistent upon God's justice despite the problem of suffering. In The Trial of God, Sam presents the very arguments the reader would expect from Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar. Compare, for example, Sam's claim that suffering is "all because of our sins" and Eliphaz's musings in : "Think now, who that was innocent ever perished? Or where were the upright cut off? As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same."
Title: God on Trial
Content: Joseph Alessi - Kapo ; Josef Altin - Isaac ; Ashley Artus - Ricard ; Alexi Kaye Campbell - Doctor (presumably Josef Mengele) ; Dominic Cooper - Moche ; Lorcan Cranitch - Blockaltester ; Stephen Dillane - Schmidt ; Rupert Graves - Mordechai ; François Guetary - Jacques ; David de Keyser - Hugo ; Agnieszka Liggett - Tour Guide ; Louise Mardenborough - Emily ; Eddie Marsan - Lieble ; André Oumansky - Jacob ; Blake Ritson - Idek ; Jack Shepherd - Kuhn ; Antony Sher - Akiba ; Stellan Skarsgård - Baumgarten ; René Zagger - Ezra ; Dailly Hilaire 

Question: Who is the author of The Trial of God?
Answer: Elie Wiesel.
Eliezer Wiesel.
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Élie Wiesel.