Gird Your Justice-Loving Loins, The ‘Making A Murderer’ Attorneys Are Coming To Australia

Dean Strang and Jerry Buting, Steven Avery’s defence attorneys who you fell in love with on Making a Murderer are answering your prayers and hauling themselves over to Australia later this year. Just like the show’s creators did in February at Sydney’s Spectrum Now, they’ll be part of an on-stage discussion about Steven Avery’s case and the broader systemic failures of the criminal justice system. Unlike the show’s creators, they will be speaking in not only Sydney, but also Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane and Melbourne.

Before we go any further, let’s take a quick moment to consider how inconceivable this excitement would have been just a few years ago. Before The People vs OJ, before Making a Murderer, before Serial, we would not have given a single thought about two middle-aged lawyers from Wisconsin talking about their work. We would have actively avoided it.

I can’t decide if this now makes us much more intelligent or much more monstrous.

The talk Strang and Buting will be giving is a version of the show they are currently touring around the US under the title ‘A Conversation On Justice’. It’s a discussion they’ve described as a sort of  “director’s cut” on the themes and details of the show.

“I think this is an opportunity where we can provide an unfiltered discussion about the Avery trial and the lessons that were learned,” Buting said. “These are the things we can’t do when the media talks to us and they only have two minutes for the nightly news. This is a chance for discussion.”

Presumably that discussion will be fairly well-honed once it heads our way. They will have toured dozens of cities before our first show on November 1.

This is also a fairly busy time for the two lawyers. Jerry Buting is currently writing a book on the criminal justice system to be released next year, and Dean Strang has both a book and a TV show in the works. Dean Strang: A Road to Justice will be an eight-part series interrogating the justice system in a “similar [structural style] to Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown“.

Once the crowd’s covered the topics of the incredibly involved and interesting case against Steven Avery, the flaws of our current understanding of criminal justice, and the enormous disadvantages huge portions of the population face when confronted with criminal prosecution, maybe you can use the Q&A to ask for a cameo on his show. (We’re definitely monsters, oh god, I’m a monster).

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A Conversation on Making a Murderer: Dean Strang And Jerry Buting

Perth – November 1, Concert Hall

Sydney – November 3, Sydney Opera House

Adelaide – November 4, AEC Theatre

Brisbane – November 6, QPAC

Melbourne – November 8, Hamer Hall

Tickets go on sale 10am Tuesday, April 19. Pre-sales are available for My Live Nation members from 10am April 18.