I’ve never seen him live, and I’ve always wanted to see what that beautiful theater with the,by Broadway standards, huge lobby is really like!
Both delivered big time last night on West 44th Street in Sea Wall/A Life.
As Zubkovskaya said to Gumerova:
Gyllenhaal’s emotion is so true that all other considerations are secondary —
But —
Facing the audience alone on stage in that spotlight, he’s using a little too much gestural shtick as leverage. This will certainly fall away before the official opening next month.
The whole evening, balanced by Tom Sturridge’s equally strong one-actor/acter, is schematically and viscerally satisfying.