In order to do live performance, the directors often need to made a lot of cuts in order to shorten the story compared to the written text.
The first player's speech is important in order to put more emphasize on motif of the characters and how it is paralleled to the story. This will help the audiences understanding how a the characters behave the way they do throughout the story.
True, police are allowed to withhold the identity of an informant from defense in a trial, informats are protected by the law and the police departments, sometimes they are placed in situations just to find out any information related to a case, and colaborate with the securities bodies, if the law didn´t protect their anonymity, they probably would not do it, affecting the good performance of the police.
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