Remembering Rufus 12 years later

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Here is a review of the latest incarnation of Translations that opened in NYC last night. The reviewer evokes Rufus' turn in the same show nearly 12 years ago.

tinyurl.com/3bldfh

[GreenEyesToo]

As does this one:

www.newsday.com/entertainment/stage/ny-etledew5065766jan26,0,3847282.story?coll=ny-theater-headlines

""Translations," Brian Friel's 1980 masterwork, was a revelation on Broadway in 1995. With Brian Dennehy and a powerfully charming young fellow named Rufus Sewell, the revival was that rare occasion in the theater - a few hours in a dark space when faraway stories of long-ago people made it impossible to slip back into politics-as-usual generalizations about contemporary events."

The 1995 production obviously made quite an impression!

Added: Sorry, just realised I linked to the same one, and now I can't find the one I meant to link to... (*red face*)

[GreenEyesToo]

Still can't find it, but did find this, from a review of the 1995 production:

"The production's best performance is Rufus Sewell's in what is probably the play's most complex, most successfully written role. He's Owen, the only character in the play who comes to understand what the English occupation means and, as a result, reluctantly takes the action that his father and Jimmy Jack both avoided for the prettiest of alibis. Anyone lucky enough to have seen the original production of "Arcadia" at the Royal National Theater in London will remember Mr. Sewell's fine, intense performance as the tutor."

query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE7DA153BF933A15750C0A963958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2



Just imagine what they'll be saying for Rock'n'Roll!