The Exonerated
by Jessica Blank
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Author: Jessica BlankEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2004-05
ISBN: 0822219468
Number of pages: 54
Publisher: Dramatist's Play Service
Book Reviews of The Exonerated
Book Review: A great play
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a great play, When you're reading it it feels more like you're watching a documentry , rather than a play that someone has created. I think the writers have done a great job in giving us an inside look into being a prisoner or a loved one of a human being on death row. I think this is a really brave play and it has something to say. However if you're after something upbeat, this is not the play to read.
Summary of The Exonerated
What effect does it have on a person--a soul, a life--to have freedom and self-respect stripped away and then, ostensibly, returned years later after decades of incarceration? The Exonerated attempts to answer this question through the words of six innocent men and women who, after years in jail, emerged from death row to try to reclaim what was left of their lives.Among them are Sunny Jacobs, a mother of two whose unwavering belief during sixteen years in jail that she would be released (despite the execution of her husband, who was also innocent, for the same crime) allowed her to dedicate herself to being a "living memorial" when she was freed. There is Kerry Max Cook, a Texan who was convicted of murdering a young woman even though she was found with another man's hair grasped in her fist--a man whom "Texas killed a thousand times, and just keeps on doing it" in his nightmares. And there is Delbert Tibbs, a black Chicago poet who speaks of his years on death row with anger and bitterness, yet also, as he says, "still sings." All their stories have been compiled and edited by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen into The Exonerated, a play that is both a riveting work of theater and an exploration of the dark side of the American criminal justice system.
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