Friday, April 23, 2010
Denzel, ‘Tosca,’ Lunatics, Charlotte Gainsbourg: N.Y. Weekend
Bloomberg.com: Denzel Washington, last seen on Broadway as Shakespeare’s Brutus, plays Troy Maxson, the domineering patriarch of a slum-dwelling family in a revival of August Wilson’s great 1987 drama, “Fences.’
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As weird as this is going to sound...I would love to see this play, because I really hated reading it. Derek Davidson and I had many a conversation about August Wilson in Foundations, and I was so disturbed by the fact that Wilson had taken Miller's Death of A Salesman, and basically made it a lot longer and more soap opera-esque. At the same time, it's such a groundbreaking play, and pretty popular amongst theatre circles, and I just know I have to be missing something. Derek talked a lot about adaptation, and taking from Miller's story but saying something different, and lots of other stuff that I didn't necessarily agree with. So seeing the actual show might make a different, because plays as a whole are meant to be performed, not read in a classroom. I'm sure Washington will do great things with the character.
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