March 2013 - Page 4 of 4 - Capital Critics' Circle / Le cercle des critiques de la capitale

Innocence Lost: Theatre of High Calibre.

By Patrick Langston | March 2, 2013

Photo: Barbara Gray.

NAC English Theatre/Centaur Theatre Company (Montreal) co-production

For the Ottawa Citizen.

Innocence has to yield, eventually, to experience. Innocence violated is a whole other matter.

In the case of Steven Truscott, the 14-year-old sentenced to hang in 1959 after being wrongfully accused of raping and murdering 12-year-old Lynne Harper near Clinton, Ont., innocence was violated on so many levels it’s almost beyond comprehension.

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La Perte de l’innocence (Innocence lost): L’histoire de Steven Truscott

By Alvina Ruprecht | March 1, 2013

Photo: Barb Gray. Trevor Barrette (Steven Turcott), Pippa Leslie (Lynn Harper) . (The critic attended the preview)

C’est l’histoire tragique de Steven Truscott, en 1959, à Clinton , une petite ville du sud -ouest de l’Ontario. Le jeune homme de quatorze ans avait été condamné à la peine capitale pour le meurtre brutal d’ une amie de douze ans, Lynne Harper et cette parodie de justice avait laissé une blessure profonde sur toute la région. La Cour d’appel de l’Ontario a fini par acquitter Truscott en 2007. Aujourd’hui, âgé de 66 ans, obligée de vivre une partie de sa vie sous un nom d’emprunt, il n’e cesse de clamer son innocence.

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NOMINEES ANNOUNCED FOR THE SIXTH ANNUAL PRIX RIDEAU AWARDS

By Capital Critics Circle | March 1, 2013

Some of the Nominees ….

Zone, ABC Démolition, Kathi Langston, Todd Duckworth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Vernus at the Fringe.

Founded in 2006 to celebrate, encourage and promote French and English locally produced
professional theatre work and its artists, the Prix Rideau Awards is proud to announce the nominees
for 2012.

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