Adrien Brody to make London stage debut as man who spent 22 years on death row

‘I have been searching for the right material and this was so clearly the one’ … Adrien Brody. Photograph: Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for Academy Museum of Motion Pictures

Adrien Brody, the Oscar-winning star of The Pianist, is to make his London stage debut at the 251-seat Donmar. The New York actor will appear in The Fear of 13, the story of Nick Yarris who spent 22 years on death row before being exonerated.

Brody told the Guardian: “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.”