Synergy Theatre Project, Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train

Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train

by Stephen Adly Guirgis
Performed by a company of professional and ex-prisoner actors
Trafalgar Studios, 6-24 April

You killed eight people, man... say your prayers twenty-four hours a day, it don't mean shit!

Protective Custody: Rikers Island, NY. Impressionable Angel and serial killer Lucius – two convicts set on a collision course – wrestle with God, their demons and a brutal system which shows no mercy.

Pre-show talks
Tues 13 April, 6.15pm: Should life mean life?
Tues 20 April, 6.15pm: Punishment and reform: where's the balance?

Speakers include: Erwin James (Guardian columnist and former prisoner), Dr Bob Johnson (Psychiatrist and co-founder of the James Nayler Foundation), Juliet Lyon (Prison Reform Trust), Tim Robertson (Koestler Trust) and Clive Stafford Smith (Reprieve).