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Kim Kardashian has joined nan producing squad of Broadway‘s wrongful-conviction play The Fear of 13 starring Adrien Brody and Tessa Thompson arsenic portion of what nan media characteristic and entrepreneur says is her continued effort to bring worldwide attraction to criminal justness reform.
“My committedness to criminal justness betterment has ever been astir much than conscionable argumentation – it’s astir people,” Kardashian said successful a statement. “I’ve learned that sometimes nan astir effective measurement to alteration minds is done a powerful story. The Fear of 13 is that story. It’s a raw, honorable look astatine Nick Yarris’s wrongful condemnation and nan systemic failures that kept him down bars for 20 years. I couldn’t beryllium prouder to make my Broadway producing debut pinch a task that carries specified captious weight.”
Written by Lindsey Ferrentino and directed by David Cromer, The Fear of 13 is presently successful previews astatine nan James Earl Jones Theatre connected Broadway, pinch opening nighttime group for Wednesday, April 15.
The play tells nan existent communicative of Nick Yarris (Brody), who spent much than 2 decades connected decease statement for a execution he did not commit. Through a bid of situation visits pinch a unpaid named Jacki (Thompson), Yarris, arsenic nan synopsis states, “traces a life shaped by impulse and consequence. As Nick and Jacki’s conversations deepen, nan statement betwixt witnesser and subordinate blurs, forcing some to face what justness demands, what belief requires, and nan perilous region betwixt existent state and nan illusion of aforesaid determination.”
Kardashian joins a squad that includes producers Seaview, Wessex Grove and Gavin Kalin Productions, alongside nan production’s antecedently announced business pinch nan Innocence Project, an statement ngo is to free nan innocent, forestall wrongful convictions, and “create fair, compassionate, and equitable systems of justness for everyone.”
As pinch Kardashian, The Fear of 13 marks nan Broadway debuts of some Brody and Thompson. The formed besides includes Ephraim Sykes, Michael Cavinder, Eddie Cooper, Victor Cruz, Eboni Flowers, Joel Marsh Garland, Jared Wayne Gladly, Joe Joseph, Jeb Kreager and Ben Thompson.
“The connection this play carries pinch it is urgent and we invited Ms. Kardashian and her activism to this accumulation and to our Broadway community,” said producers Seaview, Wessex Grove and Gavin Kalin Productions. “The activity she has done to radiance a much-needed ray connected criminal justness betterment is exemplary and we are proud to beryllium collaborating pinch her.”
The Fear of 13 had its world premiere astatine nan UK’s Donmar Warehouse successful a accumulation directed by Justin Martin.
