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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Arifa Akbar

The Fear of 13 review – Adrien Brody lacks space to shine in death row drama

Adrien Brody as Nick Yarris in The Fear of 13.
Adrien Brody as Nick Yarris in The Fear of 13. Photograph: Manuel Harlan

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).

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