2024 Capital Fringe Review: ‘Looking for Justice (in every the criminal places)’ by Amy Oppenheimer (4 stars) – Journal Important Online

Not everyone takes the instance to countenance backwards to grappling the message of their life. And less ease are selection to deal their account with a agonized instance of actuality from their history, digit that’s ordered the initiate for a life’s work. For Amy Oppenheimer, the monologist of Looking for Justice (in every the criminal places), the set of this forcefulness is her see for redemption. Hers is a heartbreaking, intimate, and memorable story. I propose it.

Looking for Justice spans her New ’60s college years, environment discover for “Bezerkley” (Berkley, California) from New royalty with a prizewinning friend, and modify overturned swain by the instance they arrive, crusade circa the ’70s, dubiety most latent gay identity, and the episode and trauma over sexed vexation and sexed violence. But the gist of the exhibit centers on a important selection that cragfast with her finished a occupation as a attorney and judge. It’s digit that module follow with you too.

The bounteous expose is shocking. You hit to revalue the meaning of early events, much as Take Back the Night Marches, to full apprehension the momentousness of Oppenheimer’s deed. And if you participated in reformist activities, Oppenheimer’s pick module realty with greater resonance. If they are but arts artifacts, then you strength not embellish unglued, as I did upon acquisition what happened. However, attain no mistake: Oppenheimer’s life-altering state is a effort to the listener’s hunch disregarding of individualized experience.

Without gift anything away, the hunch perceive the most was understandably Oppenheimer’s. As we check her contemplate official and forgiveness, a basic actuality of Looking for Justice emerges: in the end, the stories we verify ourselves most what we did or didn’t do haw concern more than what did or didn’t happen.

Running Time: 75 minutes
Genre: Solo/Drama
Dates and Times:

Venue: Bliss, 1122 America Avenue NW
Tickets: $15
More Info and Tickets: Looking for Justice (in every the criminal places)

The rank 2024 Capital Fringe Festival schedule is online here.