American Justice " review
Arts theatre, LondonYou somehow don't expect a play set in a state penitentiary in the American south to come from the pen of a drama teacher from the English north. But Richard Vergette is clearly a keen student of prison drama, and has come up with a 75-minute piece that is quietly gripping, deeply serious and only occasionally sounds like pastiche.The premise admittedly takes a bit of swallowing. John Daniels, a D…