The British theatre company Dante or Die’s new touring production is an absorbing, thought-provoking prison drama sprung from an arresting true story. Written (with James Baldwin) and co-directed by Daphna Attias and Terry O’Donovan, it focuses on the budding relationship and eventual marriage of two British men serving life sentences for separate homophobic murders.
The real-life union that inspired Kiss Marry Kill, said to have been unprecedented, occurred in an East Yorkshire prison in 2015. This was the kind of news item that seems ready-made bait for tabloids and human rights campaigners alike.
However, the show’s creators are more interested in the human rather than the narrative’s political or sensational aspects. Their script is fictionalised, but its basic premise yields the same questions that
