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Description the long road by shelagh stephenson after a sellout run earlier this year, this topical and powerful play returns to soho theatre. These include darling peidi, about the thompson and bywater murder case, which was broadcast in the monday play series in 1993. A s shelagh stephenson scored her first big hit at hampstead with the memory of water in 1996, it seems fitting that she should be chosen to launch edward halls new. May 18, 2012 reflecting the kind of headlines that we see in our newspapers all too often, an ordinary teenager is fatally stabbed in a random street attack and an ordinary family is torn apart by grief.
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