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...probably unfair to compare the subtleties of Chekhov with the high-strung dramatics of Arthur Miller, but at least Simon McBurney, director of the gripping new revival of All My Sons, seems energized by the play rather than enervated by it. McBurney, artistic director of the avant-garde Complicite theater company, has reimagined Miller's domestic drama as a stylized mixture of Brecht and Euripedes. The main characters open the play by announcing they're going to perform a play for us; supertitles introduce us to "Act I," "Act 2" and even the "Intermission." The set is spare and semi...
...knowingly shipped defective airplane parts during World War II. (It's quintessential Miller, which means quintessential Ibsen: there's no real action, just reaction to the revelation of long-hidden secrets.) Miller's indictment of business ethics and portrait of a family in crisis can seem overwrought, but McBurney's solution is to go the playwright one better; his expressionistic devices imbue the play with tragic universality. The capable cast includes John Lithgow as Joe, Dianne Wiest as his wife, and Patrick Wilson as his adoring, deluded son. But the reason crowds are rushing to see All My Sons...
...solidly portraying an inherently weak character. Garrigan is an unheroic protagonist, who struggles as much to accept Amin’s evil as he does to act on his moral misgivings. Garrigan finds himself fallen into a world of moral relativism, highlighted by the character of Nigel Stone (Simon McBurney, “Friends With Money”), a British statesman. Stone is a slimy diplomat whose rhetoric is filled with political maneuverings, and Garrigan is quick to call him out on it. But once contrasted to Amin’s ruthless megalomania, Garrigan is forced to re-evaluate Stone...
...defense different this year with the loss of All-Ivy-caliber players such as Ricky Williamson, Sean Tracy, Matt McBurney, and Bobby Everett...
...rented flat in Vancouver, there's her car, which she drove up from L.A. filled to the roof with her books and painting easel. Now divorced from an orthopedic surgeon she met when they were students at high school, she was more recently linked with actor-director Simon McBurney, co-founder of London's famed Theatre de Complicite. "I'm very reticent talking about those kind of things," she says. Instead, "where my parents and my sister are - that is where home is," she says. To this beloved harbor, she'd like to bring back a film project - perhaps Sisters...