The Exonerated is a dramatic play written and directed, in its premiere, by American playwrights Erik Jensen and Jessica Blank.First released in 2002, it profiles six Americans who were wrongly convicted and given death sentences; they spent a cumulative total of more a century in prison before being exonerated. According to the Educational Theatre Association's 2015-2016 Annual High School Play Survey, Playscripts is the publisher of 9 of the top 11 most popular one-act plays. From beloved comedies like Check Please (Over 3,000 productions and counting) to challenging dramas like Property Rites (Over 500 productions), Playscripts has a vast catalog of. Local Play Tells Life Stories Of Exonerated Inmates On Death Row For Crimes They Didn't Commit It has received poor reviews from critics and viewers, who have given it an IMDb score of 6.4. The Exonerated is available to watch, stream, download and buy on demand at Fandor, Amazon, Google Play.
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Ryan's essay analyzes the coordination of the innocence argument and sentimentality in Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen's TheExonerated (2003), a documentary play based on interviews with people sentenced to die for crimes they did not commit. The play's composition, performance, and reception reveal the challenges of creating art that is aimed at social reform and confirm the difficulty in assessing the political function or, in Fredric Jameson's sense, the political unconscious of American literature. As a celebrated example of political theater, The Exonerated also provides a forum for thinking through the contemporary terms and framework of conversations about state killing. Ryan argues that the play stimulates reform and elicits sympathy by substituting a false rhetoric of universal vulnerability for a more accurate assessment of imprisonment and judicial murder. The attempt to make the play accessible, emotional, and persuasive also sets real limits on how audience members are asked think about personal and social responsibility. Some of these efforts include a focus on the wrongly convicted instead of the guilty, a balance of white and black interviewees in the face of a racially unbalanced justice system, a rendering of pain as uplifting for audiences, and an encouragement of personal and financial solutions rather than structural and political ones.