Please note: The April 21 performance is no longer accepting reservations. We encourage you to arrive at 6:30 p.m.
to check on availability.
to check on availability.
From the director/producer:
Welcome to the Voices Theatre Project. This organization was started in order to produce a play that has been hugely important to me due to its remarkable impact and most simplistic, truthful storytelling style.
Several years ago, I happened upon a DVD at the library entitled The Exonerated. It was a filmed version of a play that had been presented off-Broadway, written by husband and wife team Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen. I checked it out, watched it, and found my eyes opened to the deeply flawed justice system in which I had put my faith as an American citizen. In the years that followed, we as a society have begun to have more robust discussions about race, inequality, injustices, police corruption, and other issues that were at the heart of this remarkable play. I frequently thought back to it as we saw the Black Lives Matter movement come to fruition.
In 2015 when I, like millions of others, was devastated by the Netflix documentary Making a Murderer, I was once again reminded of the stories at the heart of this play. Finally, with the election of Donald Trump, I decided that it was my responsibility as an artist to share stories with social justice themes in whatever way I could. Our way of life, particularly for those who are oppressed by racial or economical woes, is now at the forefront of American conversation. It was time to produce this play in Madison, a city with a strongly vested interest in equality and justice, located less than 150 miles from the town where the events depicted in Making a Murder had taken place.
I hope you will join me in sharing this heart wrenching and surprisingly uplifting tale of humanity at its worst and best, and in supporting the important work of the Wisconsin Innocence Project, which works daily to free those who are wrongly convicted. This play shows us only six stories. They have hundreds more.
Contact me at voicestheatreproject@gmail.com or find VTP on Facebook here.
Welcome to the Voices Theatre Project. This organization was started in order to produce a play that has been hugely important to me due to its remarkable impact and most simplistic, truthful storytelling style.
Several years ago, I happened upon a DVD at the library entitled The Exonerated. It was a filmed version of a play that had been presented off-Broadway, written by husband and wife team Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen. I checked it out, watched it, and found my eyes opened to the deeply flawed justice system in which I had put my faith as an American citizen. In the years that followed, we as a society have begun to have more robust discussions about race, inequality, injustices, police corruption, and other issues that were at the heart of this remarkable play. I frequently thought back to it as we saw the Black Lives Matter movement come to fruition.
In 2015 when I, like millions of others, was devastated by the Netflix documentary Making a Murderer, I was once again reminded of the stories at the heart of this play. Finally, with the election of Donald Trump, I decided that it was my responsibility as an artist to share stories with social justice themes in whatever way I could. Our way of life, particularly for those who are oppressed by racial or economical woes, is now at the forefront of American conversation. It was time to produce this play in Madison, a city with a strongly vested interest in equality and justice, located less than 150 miles from the town where the events depicted in Making a Murder had taken place.
I hope you will join me in sharing this heart wrenching and surprisingly uplifting tale of humanity at its worst and best, and in supporting the important work of the Wisconsin Innocence Project, which works daily to free those who are wrongly convicted. This play shows us only six stories. They have hundreds more.
Contact me at voicestheatreproject@gmail.com or find VTP on Facebook here.
