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Adrien Brody and Tessa Thompson will make their Broadway debuts in “The Fear of 13,” a searing play about a wrongly convinced death row prisoner.
“The Fear of 13” tells the true story of Nick Yarris (Brody), a Pennsylvania native who spends more than two decades on death row for a rape and murder he insists he didn’t commit. Through a series of prison visits with a volunteer named Jackie (Thompson), Nick shares the impulses and consequences that shaped his life. Described as “devastating, darkly funny, and life-affirming,” the show forces the pair to “confront what justice demands, what belief requires, and the perilous distance between true freedom and the illusion of self- determination,” according to the official logline.
Lindsey Ferrentino (“The Queen of Versailles”) adapted the play from the 2015 documentary by British filmmaker David Sington. David Cromer, who won a Tony for “The Band’s Visit” and helmed George Clooney’s Broadway debut in “Good Night, and Good Luck,” is directing “The Fear of 13.” Producers are Seaview, Wessex Grove and Gavin Kalin Productions.
Performances will begin on March 19 at Broadway’s James Earl Jones Theatre ahead of opening night on April 15.
Brody, an Academy Award winner for “The Pianist” and “The Brutalist,” made his London stage debut with “The Fear of 13” last October. The Independent gave the production a three-star review and wrote that Brody gives “a powerful performance that doesn’t let this wronged man feel like a straightforward victim.”
When his casting across the Pond was announced, Brody called “The Fear of 13” a “story steeped in truth, that exposes systematic injustice and apathy through hope and humanity.”
“I love the theatre and although I have not been on the stage in many years I have been searching for the right material and this was so clearly the one,” Brody told the Guardian.
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