He has received two nominations for the. He has directed numerous acclaimed films since the early 1980s, including My Beautiful Laundrette (1985), Dangerous Liaisons (1988), The Grifters (1990), High Fidelity (2000), The Queen (2006), Philomena (2013), Florence Foster Jenkins (2016), and Victoria & Abdul (2017). Stephen Arthur Frears (born 20 June 1941) is an English director and producer.
Dangerous Lians Broadway Cast 2008 Series Of One
For instance, the mother and son trade a series of one-word insults, which he says is very powerful and had been translated differently in previous versions."Somehow we have a tendency to dilute what in Chekhov is always very crisp and quite blunt, actually," Hampton says. "To make the audience laugh when he wanted them to laugh and to make them cry when he wanted them to cry."In the play, Kristin Scott Thomas, who has acted in films like Four Weddings and a Funeral and The English Patient, plays the mother to Mackenzie Crook, who appeared in the original British version of the TV show The Office.They're the two most compelling characters in a group of Russians who gather at a country estate.In revising the play, Hampton says, he paid attention to the number of words in the sentences to meter the language and make it more concise. Liaisons, or actors who bridge otherwise disconnected portions of a network.The play — a funny and tragic story about love, success, family and theater — is a new version by Christopher Hampton, who also wrote the screenplays for Atonement, The Quiet American and Dangerous Liaisons.Hampton has adapted other Chekhov plays — Three Sisters and Uncle Vanya — but he doesn't speak Russian, unless you count a year in high school.So in revising The Seagull, Hampton tells NPR's Robert Siegel, he sat with a Russian who guided him through the piece, which he calls the "best play that exists about writers and actors.""What we're looking for is to really try to fathom exactly what Chekhov's intentions were and to reproduce them," Hampton says. A commonality linking adolescent romantic relationships and alcohol.
...
0 kommentar(er)
