| re: Brent Carver has died | |
| Last Edit: Alison 09:58 pm EDT 08/06/20 | |
| Posted by: Alison 09:57 pm EDT 08/06/20 | |
| In reply to: Brent Carver has died - AC126748 04:44 pm EDT 08/06/20 | |
|
|
|
| I saw him as Leo Frank, as Tevye, as Jacques in As You Like It, as Merlyn and Pellinore in Camelot, as Pilate in JCS, in a production of Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris. Some of those in two different productions on the same day. He never failed to take my breath away. His delivery of the “All the world’s a stage” speech in As You Like It stopped the show with a lengthy ovation. His Pilate was chilling and shattering at the same time. His Tevye is in my top two or three all time favourite performances, a complete reinvention of the role, but afterwards seems the only interpretation that ever made any sense. He was always so human, so vulnerable, but so commanding and compelling. I sat at my kitchen table tonight and wept for someone I only met twice (in my young and foolish days, stage dooring Fiddler at Stratford and Parade in NYC ... both times he was so gracious and humble and lovely), but who changed my theatre going life with his brilliance. I am heartbroken. | |
| reply | |
|
|
|
| Previous: | re: Brent Carver has died - Chromolume 02:13 am EDT 08/07/20 |
| Next: | I couldn't agree more about his Tevye. - DanielVincent 02:49 pm EDT 08/07/20 |
| Thread: |
|
Time to render: 0.117834 seconds.