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Travelling Light, by Nicholas Wright
Photo by Johan Persson
Travelling Light is a new play starring Sir Antony Sher and directed by the National Theatre's artistic director, Nicholas Hytner.
From the Financial Times:
"In 1936, Hollywood mogul Maurice Montgomery looks back on his beginnings as Motl Mendl 40 years earlier in the “old country”. Returning to the shtetl where his photographer uncle had recently died, Motl discovers a Lumière Brothers cinématographe (a camera-cum-projector) and falls under the spell of film. Financed by timber-merchant Jacob, Motl begins shooting, only to find a stream of problems both technical and personnel-related.
Wright fantasises amusingly about these folk inventing the concepts of montage, continuity and even test screenings long before the first movie outfits had moved to Hollywood."
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Middle-Aged Men in Speedos: What's Not to Love?
Penelope, Enda's Walsh's ingenious take on Homer's Odyssey, is next up at Third Rail
 
A beautiful woman, an empty swimming pool, four middle-aged men in Speedos, and a returning warrior. The hourglass is almost empty, and waiting to die has never been this entertaining.
Describing this word-drunk play, the New York Times said it "dares to suggest what it would be like had Samuel Beckett, instead of James Joyce, decided to reinvent Homer's Odyssey."
Irish playwright sensation Enda Walsh's Penelope is a must-see, featuring four company members - Tim True, Michael O'Connell, Chris Murray, and Bruce Burkhartsmeier - as Penelope's suitors, joined by guest artist Britt Harris as the eponymous object of their thwarted desire. 3R's Philip Cuomo directs. Performances begin June 1 at the Winningstad Theatre at PCPA!
Everybody in the pool!
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