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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Nick Curtis

The Fear of 13 at the Donmar review: Adrien Brody is magnetic in this enjoyable but uneven Death Row drama

Oscar-winner Adrien Brody makes a freewheelingly charismatic West End debut in the world premiere of a strange American play based on an even stranger true story.

In Lindsey Ferrentino’s uneven drama, the star of The Pianist plays Nick Yarris, who spent 22 years on Death Row in a Pennsylvania prison. Tousled, impossibly lean and charmingly wolfish, Brody surfs each twist and turn of a script that is mostly preoccupied with the stories we tell ourselves as individuals or as a society.

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