Post by CCADP on Apr 8, 2006 7:21:41 GMT -5
'Exonerated' at Knox
Friday, April 7, 2006
GALESBURG -"The Exonerated," a theatrical documentary about people who were sentenced to death but subsequently exonerated, will be performed at 7:30 p.m. nightly, today and Saturday, with an additional performance at 2 p.m. Saturday in Studio Theatre, Ford Center for the Fine Arts, at Knox College.
The performances are free and open to the public.
The play is directed by Heather Courtney, as part of a senior honors project in theater.
"The authors, Jessica Blank and Eric Jensen, were inspired to write the play after they heard a lecture by someone who had been sentenced to death and later exonerated," Courtney said. "Starting in 2000, they traveled across the country, interviewing innocent people who had spent between two and 22 years on death row before their convictions were overturned."
"'The Exonerated' makes us confront botched trials, bad evidence, false confessions, prejudice, and coercion in the legal system," Courtney said.
The play has been performed on Broadway, and the television adaptation, broadcast last year, starred Susan Sarandon, Danny Glover and Brian Dennehy.
Friday, April 7, 2006
GALESBURG -"The Exonerated," a theatrical documentary about people who were sentenced to death but subsequently exonerated, will be performed at 7:30 p.m. nightly, today and Saturday, with an additional performance at 2 p.m. Saturday in Studio Theatre, Ford Center for the Fine Arts, at Knox College.
The performances are free and open to the public.
The play is directed by Heather Courtney, as part of a senior honors project in theater.
"The authors, Jessica Blank and Eric Jensen, were inspired to write the play after they heard a lecture by someone who had been sentenced to death and later exonerated," Courtney said. "Starting in 2000, they traveled across the country, interviewing innocent people who had spent between two and 22 years on death row before their convictions were overturned."
"'The Exonerated' makes us confront botched trials, bad evidence, false confessions, prejudice, and coercion in the legal system," Courtney said.
The play has been performed on Broadway, and the television adaptation, broadcast last year, starred Susan Sarandon, Danny Glover and Brian Dennehy.