Long Road

<b>After a sell-out run earlier this year this topical and powerful play returns to Soho Theatre.</b><br/>A programme text edition published in conjunction with The Synergy<br/>Theatre Project in association with The Forgiveness Project and Soho<br/>Theatre <i>The Long Road</i> runs from 10 - 29 November 2008.<br/><br/>'Mary wants us to talk about the girl that killed our son. I want to wipe her off the face of the earth'<br/>In the aftermath of Danny's pointless murder his family struggles to find meaning and forgiveness.<br/><br/><i>The Long Road</i> evolved out of a period of research with<br/>prisoners by Synergy Theatre Project in collaboration with The<br/>Forgiveness Project and award-winning playwright Shelagh Stephenson. <br/><br/><br/><b>Synergy Theatre Project</b> works through theatre with<br/>offenders and ex-offenders towards resettlement and rehabilitation<br/>whilst placing the wider issues surrounding imprisonment in the public<br/>arena. <b>The Forgiveness Project</b> encourages and empowers people to explore the nature of forgiveness and alternatives to revenge. <br/><br/><b>'It is a rare play that hits the news with such cruel<br/>topicality . . . Stephenson offers a powerful illuminating piece of<br/>dramatic fiction' </b>Nicholas de Jongh <i>Evening Standard</i><br/><b><i></i></b><b>'Rare and remarkable . . . this is a drama that cries out for attention - and richly rewards it' </b><i>The Telegraph</i>