By Alan Hustak on February 1, 2013
Innocence Lost at the Centaur Theatre until Feb 21, tells how a web of mindless suspicion woven by decent, god-fearing folk in a rural Ontario ensnared and destroyed Stephen Truscott, the 14-year old who was convicted and sentenced to hang for the 1959 rape and murder of a 12-year old classmate, Lynne Harper, - a murder he did not commit. Under Roy Surette’s flawless, even- handed direction, the production of Beverley Cooper’s play quietly lays bare every painful emotion of that reprehensible chapter of Canadian judicial history. The cast of ten in multiple roles is inspired. Each and every actor brings to life the various respectable small-minded characters they play in a distinct theatrical creation.
