Caryl Phillips’s A Long Way From Home was another biographical play, telling the story of Marvin Gaye’s later career, when he was exiled from the United States – due to tax demands – and spent his time instead in Belgium. In Ned Chaillet’s production Gaye (O-T Fagbenle) was a self-destructive, entirely self-interested personality, treating his girlfriend Beatrice (Rhea Bailey) as an object, beating her up when and where necessary, and abusing his friend Freddy (Kerry Shale), a Belgian entrepreneur who spent time and money trying to set him up once again at his local club – even if it meant the demise of Freddy’s marriage. In true Hollywood style, Gaye’s shortcomings were attributed to his father (Shale again), a failed preacher who lost his local church in Washington DC, and who forever accused his son of lacking respect for parental authority. Eventually Marvin sr. shoots his son dead, just at the time when Gave jr.’s career looks like being resurrected.  In this case religion is seen as something constricting, almost prejudicial to the development of an individual.