"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
Jordan, I pretty much posted this for you. Apparently, Sally Hawkins played Marianne in the original production, how lovely would it be to see her show up here (though I know her previous Broadway outing was not too successful).
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
Am I losing my mind, or did he already make his broadway debut a year or two ago in a play? I distinctively remember him being in a play, where he had to grow a beard and played a troubled young man of some sort. Cannot remember the play I'm thinking of! Can anyone shed some light into this situation? Or maybe I am just going crazy...
Saw this play in London and absolutely adored it (Sally Hawkins was heartbreakingly good); I could really see Gyllenhaal in the male lead role actually. What a lovely Xmas treat for Broadway :)
Oh, how wonderful! Constellations is a fantastic play; in a way it's a shame Rafe Spall won't be doing this production but I'm sure Gyllenhaal will do a fine, fine job.
In another Nick Payne play, as well! Definitely my favourite work of his so far. I hope Longhurst replicates the London staging which was excellent.
I can already imagine the complaints around here about how that doesn't constitute a real evening of theatre...
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
The film adaptation was a rumor. Nothing ever came of it.
I hope Hawkins appears in the Broadway production.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
I saw Rafe Spall in the London production and fell in love. Sally Hawkins was terrific as well. For a play with a "gimmick" it's still pretty terrific and wouldn't really work if it were longer than the 70 or 75 minutes it runs. I liked Jake in the water play (at the Atlantic?) but I think I'll preserve my Rafe memory and skip the NY production.