| re: Hard to believe 9 years has passed since it was on broadway. | |
| Posted by: lonlad 03:25 pm EDT 04/23/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Hard to believe 9 years has passed since it was on broadway. - aislestorm 01:10 pm EDT 04/23/20 | |
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| Qualitatively speaking, 'Jerusalem' is on a different planet from 'Art' or, indeed, 'War Horse' which shamefully scooped the Tony over both it and 'The Mother.... with the Hat' - both far superior however emotive Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris's production of WH was. I don't think Broadwayites can quite grasp = and why should they? - the hold 'Jerusalem' has exerted over the psyche in Britain across three different London runs, and Mark Rylance returning in this role will be greeted like Mick Jagger making an encore appearance at Wembley Arena -- it's a rock 'n' roll performance of incomparable power, fury and adrenaline and I can see Rylance revisiting it again and again over time until he can barely move: Johnny is a life force that won't easily be depleted and I can see the play having a symbolic power post-Covid that will be something to behold. FWIW it's also a far better play than THE FERRYMAN, richly theatrical though that subsequent Jez Butterworth play surely is: the difference is that Jez B knows the terrain of 'Jerusalem' inside out and backwards, whereas his understanding of the world of FERRYMAN, while real to be sure, is essentially filtered through the experience of Laura Donnelly, with whom he lives and for whom the play was written, inspired by the experiences of her family. 'Art' was revived here a few years ago at the Old Vic, with Rufus Sewell, and didn't do especially well. I don't think it's stood the test of time, entertaining though it was and is, and Yasmina Reza herself seems to have vanished from view, replaced to some degree by Florian Zeller. |
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