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Box Office Hours: Monday - Friday 10:00am - 5:30pm
Box Office opens one hour prior to curtain
time
Theatre opens for seating 30 minutes prior to curtain time
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THE EXONERATED Friday &
Saturday at 8:00pm Tickets are $8, general admission After-Show Discussion Following Saturday evening's performance, please join us for a moderated discussion of the issues raised in the play. Our Panelists are Greg Marcille with Florida's State Attorney's Office will represent the prosecution. Alan Jerome Crotzer spent over twenty-four years in the Florida prison system for crimes he didn’t commit and was finally freed with the use of DNA testing, which proved that vital biological evidence taken from the victims was from someone other than him. The Innocence Project attorneys and private investigators from both Florida and New York won his release in 2006. Since then Mr. Crotzer has concentrated his time and energy on helping to obtain compensation for the wrongly convicted, speaking to anyone who will listen about his story and empowering them to change the way we administer justice in Florida, and working to support his family doing landscaping. Mr. Crotzer resides in Tallahassee, Florida with his wife and her two children. Appearance sponsored by the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida. Seth Miller, Executive Director of the Innocence Project of Florida, Inc (IPF) oversees the investigation and litigation of DNA testing requests in the Florida courts and advocates for release of inmates who have proven their innocence through the use of DNA testing. Additionally, IPF provides comprehensive transition assistance to exonerees and lobbies the Florida legislature for exoneree compensation and necessary criminal justice reforms. Before coming to IPF, Seth was a project attorney for the Death Penalty Moratorium Implementation Project at the American Bar Association and a staff attorney at the Florida First District Court of Appeal. Appearance sponsored by the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida. Moderator is Bob Solarski, Channel 3 News Anchor and host/producer of "Channel 3 News In Focus." The panel discussion will begin at approximately 9:45pm on Saturday. Admission is free but is dependent on available seating. |
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Culled from interviews, letters, transcripts, case files and the public record, THE EXONERATED tells the true stories of six wrongfully convicted survivors of death row in their own words. In this ninety-minute intermissionless play, we meet Kerry, a sensitive Texan brutalized on death row for twenty-two years before being exonerated by DNA evidence; we meet Gary, a Midwestern organic farmer condemned for the murder of his own parents and later exonerated when two motorcycle-gang members confess. We meet Robert, an African-American horse groomer who spent seven years on death row for the murder of a white woman before evidence emerges that the victim was found clutching hair from a Caucasian attacker. We hear from David, a shy man with aspirations to the ministry, bullied into confessing at eighteen to a robbery/murder he had nothing to do with, scarred from a youth spent in prison and struggling to regain his faith; and from Sunny, a bright-spirited hippie who, along with her husband, spent seventeen years in prison for the murder of two police officers—while another man confessed and was ignored by the courts. And we meet Delbert, a poet who serves as the play's center, convicted of a rape/murder in the Deep South of the 1970s and later freed when evidence surfaced showing that he was not even in the town when the crime occurred. Moving between first-person monologues and scenes set in courtrooms and prisons, the six interwoven stories paint a picture of an American criminal justice system gone horribly wrong—and of six brave souls who persevered to survive it.
Playwrights Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen used court transcripts, police interrogations, and depositions to recount the stories of six former Death Row inmates who spent from two to 22 years behind bars. For their work, Blank and Jensen have been honored with the Justice in Arts and Media Award from Death Penalty Focus, Court TV’s Scales of Justice Award, and the 2003 Defender of Justice Award from the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
Pensacola Little Theatre's Studio 400 Series is Sponsored by
Pensacola Little Theatre's Studio 400 Series Media Sponsors
All
STUDIO 400 Production are presented in the M. C. Blanchard Courtroom of
the Pensacola Cultural Center.
Studio 400 productions may contain mature themes and adult language.