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Wednesday, October 09, 2002
THEATER REVIEW: THE EXONERATED * * 1/2 (2 and a half stars out of 4).
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The Exonerated features an all-star cast (most notably including Richard Dreyfuss) reading the exact words of several falsely convicted former residents of death row. It's certainly a compelling argument against the death penalty. But it's not very visually apealing. The actors all sit in chairs the whole time, and just read their lines off a page. Also, the stories are inter-cut Fantasy Island style. That works fine for two or maybe three unrelated stories, but here there were at least half a dozen, and it got more than a little confusing. I really think that, one at a time, the actors should have walked on stage, told their whole story from start to finish (preferably from memory, though I apreciate the fidelity to the actual statements of the accused), and then been followed by the next actor. That would have been more visually engaging, and much easier to follow.
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