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RIP BOY by Neil McKay directed by Melanie Harris for Red Production Company

"Bafta-winning TV playwright Neil McKay specialises in dramatising stories about real lives and has used ghastly true events at Feltham Young Offenders Institution as the core of this harrowing work. Robert Stewart is a damaged, violent young man who should have been contained in a secure psychiatric unit rather than a state prison. A catalogue of grave mistakes in Stewart's treatment is meticulously unfurled before our ears until we reach the brutal and horribly predictable end to his long record of violence and racist behaviour. Both tragic and shaming, this raises some very serious issues. Jane Anderson _Radio Times Choice
Features Matthew McNulty & Ross Boatman_"

scene from RIP Boy

Matthew McNulty and Fiona Clark

RIP Boy was selected for the Prix Europa