There are stories so true and yet so bleak that many people don’t really want to hear them. Life Without Parole is one of these. Yet the play, produced by Working Artists Theatre Project in association with Karah Gravatt and Robert Tyrer and presented by the New York International Fringe Festival, is as powerful as any new play I have seen in years. Its message is a stark one. Women who are abused by the men in their lives often have no choice but to end the cycle of violence with their own violent actions. Often this happens after their children have been forced into the sphere of danger. And these women are often treated without sympathy by our criminal justice system and are subsequently sent to prison for life. It happens over and over again and there seems no end to it….