Angel Cruz is standing trial for shooting the Reverend Kim in the ass; Reverend Kim later died. Lucius Jenkins is on appeal, trying to avoid the death penalty for the murder of eight people. For one hour each day, both men share adjacent cages on Rikers Island, New York’s top security prison. Then one day they get talking.
‘Jesus Hopped The ‘A’ Train’ is a funny, powerful, adrenaline-fuelled drama of good and evil, penalty and redemption, justice and revenge by Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright Stephen Adley Giurgis (‘The Motherfucker With The Hat’ at the National Theatre,
Danny Solomon as Angel Cruz
Faz Singhateh as Lucius Jenkins
Alice Bryony Frankham as Mary Jane Hanrahan
Alastair Gillies as Valdez
Garth Williams as Charlie D’Amico
Directed by Jake Murray
Produced by Hannah Ellis
Designed by Louis Price
Lighting by Adam Murdoch
Sound by Gerry Marsden
Production Manager Andrew Glassford
Stage Manager Alice Longson
Voice coaching by Graham Eaglesham
Supported by Robinson’s Structures