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MARY CONWAY relishes a magnificent performance and the rich street language in a flawed depiction of racist police violence in downtown New York
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Between Riverside and Crazy
Hampstead Theatre, London

 

PLAYWRIGHT Stephen Adly Guirgis commands a dramatic niche all of his own as he immerses us in the hidden entrails of downtown New York in this Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy/drama from 2014.

Following his previously acclaimed works such as The Motherfucker With The Hat and Jesus Hopped The “A” Train, Guirgis returns to a world where the law and criminality, drugs and sobriety, truth and lies, God and retribution, duck and dive together until none is distinguishable from its opposite. 

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