As true crime stories go, Nick Yarris’s tale is stranger than fiction and a dismally familiar trajectory of a man failed by the system. Stopped by a traffic cop in Pennsylvania at the age of 21, he spends more than two decades on death row, sentenced to death by electric chair for a rape and murder he did not commit.
Adrien Brody makes his London debut in the central role in Lindsey Ferrentino’s play, based on a documentary which Yarris narrates (and he is an artful storyteller).