Rebecca Hall to make Broadway debut in Roundabout's MACHINAL

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Rebecca Hall to make Broadway debut in Roundabout's MACHINAL

Posted: 5/29/13 at 1:22pm

This is a magnificent play when done well... I'm skeptical.

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/178417-Rebecca-Hall-Will-Make-Broadway-Debut-in-Sophie-Treadwells-Machinal-for-Roundabout

"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman

Rebecca Hall to make Broadway debut in Roundabout's MACHINAL

Posted: 5/29/13 at 1:26pm

Rebecca Hall is great casting. But it is Roundabout...

"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

Rebecca Hall to make Broadway debut in Roundabout's MACHINAL

Posted: 5/29/13 at 1:27pm

That was my thought exactly, AC...

"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman

Rebecca Hall to make Broadway debut in Roundabout's MACHINAL

Posted: 5/29/13 at 1:29pm

I don't know much about this director. Has anyone seen her work? I find the play works best with a little bit of an abstract POV.

"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman

Rebecca Hall to make Broadway debut in Roundabout's MACHINAL

Posted: 5/29/13 at 1:39pm

Rebecca Hall is perfectly cast. She should be extraordinary.

Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.

Rebecca Hall to make Broadway debut in Roundabout's MACHINAL

Posted: 5/29/13 at 4:40pm

I'm guardedly optimistic about this one... I played the Husband in my college acting days and this play is so ripe for a strong, visionary production to commandeer and take to a deep, dark place. It's also astonishingly relevant, touching on feminism, gender relations, and the death penalty. I can see so many ways it can be done amazingly well in the 21st Century, so here's hoping RTC has it in them to nail this one.

Words don't deserve that kind of malarkey. They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good anymore…I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.

Rebecca Hall to make Broadway debut in Roundabout's MACHINAL

Posted: 5/29/13 at 4:50pm

Love Hall, I think she might have been a more natural fit for THE HEIRESS than Jessica Chastain (though i know some people on here loved Chastain, I didn't see her so can't say much). I wasn't expecting her to make her Broadway debut anytime soon, so happy that she is, she's one of those actresses who should go through the entire canon (Hedda, Nora, Stella, etc).

"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"

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