IN PRINT, OUT OF MIND

posted by James Reel

    At last night’s concert, people buttonholed me and wanted to chat about an article I have in the current issue of Fanfare about a microtonal composer, and a review I wrote for the Tucson Weekly last November of the UA’s production of Henry IV. It’s hard enough for me to remember what I wrote last week, let alone last quarter, so all I could do was smile and nod and pretend I knew what they were talking about.
    On the subject of what I wrote last week, today’s Tucson Weekly carries my review of a well-performed, disturbing play at Invisible Theatre:

    At the beginning of The Exonerated, which opened last week at Invisible Theatre, 10 actors file in and take their seats, most behind a long desk on either side of the stage, one in the middle, two on stools behind. It's so tidy, so symmetrical, so orderly. But without ever moving from their seats, these actors produce 90 minutes of absolute wreckage.
    The destruction is personal, emotional, psychological. The Exonerated is a documentary play by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen, who interviewed men and women who were wrongly convicted of murder and spent years on death row until they were cleared by the extraordinary efforts of, primarily, public-interest groups.