EDMONTON -- "We have been allowed to linger while the rest of the world passed along," observes one of the unquiet spirits in Trevor Schmidt's Blood Oranges.

Traditionally, ghosts are supposed to be ethereal forces left behind when great events or passions are unfinished. Schmidt has based his play on a true event - an 1875, headline-grabbing, O.J. Simpson-type trial where three suspects were charged in the murder of a famous lawyer - and none were found guilty. The three phantoms meet again and again to act out their parts in the murder - in hopes of tricking one or the other into a confession.
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