Monday, October 14, 2024
‘I could not get through the script without crying’: Adrien Brody talks to the death row survivor who he’s playing on the London stage
Theatre | The Guardian: The rehearsal space for the Donmar Warehouse theatre is a scruffy, gymnasium-scale, subterranean cavern in Covent Garden. Strewn around, on Monday morning last week, are some telltale signs of stressful, long days: scrunched-up packs of bourbon biscuits and custard creams, and scattered pages of heavily inked script; also, intriguingly, four (empty) boxes of heavy-duty handcuffs. Dominating the room is a makeshift stage that looks like a boxing ring without ropes and measures 3.5 metres by 3.2 metres, almost the exact dimensions of a cell on death row.
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I’m amazed that Yarris is able to have so positive and healthy an outlook on life after everything he’s been through. The fact that there are so many death row cases that have been overturned or later found to be innocent––really just the fact that it’s a nonzero number at all––is terrifying. Especially in this case, when it’s clear that Yarris was just trying to reduce his sentence and had no connection to the murder he was accused of. The system is designed to take any lying or misdirection as guilt, but this doesn’t account for the desperate circumstances that prisoners are already in. It speaks to the transformative power of theatre that someone looked at this story and thought, yeah, that has to be a play, and a small but prestigious venue like the Donmar Warehouse is the perfect place to do it.
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