This Off-Broadway hit, telling the stories of six innocent survivors of death row, doesn't need stars in the cast, although in the US everyone from Brooke Shields to Mia Farrow has been queuing up to take part. It is not The Vagina Monologues with added pain and suffering, although the Vagina Monologues has caused plenty of pain and suffering itself. This is a simple telling of how American justice failed six people. It uses only their own words and extracts from court hearings and depositions. It has purity.
In fact an array of stars sitting at the row of lecterns reading from the scripts, might be distracting, and there are already enough distractions in this venue - from the bad acoustics to the late-comers. No matter; what you get is direct, straight-from-the-heart acting and six devastating fragmentary stories that eventually pull together and prove the law is an ass.
The piece is American in sentiment, but not mawkish, and when, at the end of Tuesday's performance, it was revealed that the frail woman playing Sunny Jacobs really was Sunny Jacobs telling her tale of surviving 16 years on death row and the execution of her husband, I was on my feet with everyone else.
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