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...The only thing flowing more freely than the booze is the vitriol, no one more practised at it than Portia’s vicious grandmother (Sorcha Cusack, splendidly malevolent)....
...The 2014 film had an all-star cast of Paul Dano and John Cusack as Wilson during both his stable and troubled stages, Elizabeth Banks and Paul Giamatti....
...The show begins at the story’s end, with Cusack’s Lenù walking on to an empty stage and into the open space of memory....
...The story of the Beach Boys and their luminary leader Brian Wilson is well-known and already twice told in TV movies but made fresh here....
...Brian Wilson, played in alternation by Paul Dano (young) and John Cusack (fiftyish), was a mentally troubled songwriter....
...(starring Paul Dano as a very convincing young Brian), the second dealing with his later private hell years (with a hopelessly unconvincing John Cusack)....
...The man he is talking about is Brian Friel – and Colgan is far from alone in his opinion....
...Consequently, Anna Mackmin’s over-demonstrative direction of Brian Friel’s drama cripples the delicacy of its memory-play structure and the minor key of Friel’s writing....
...With casts of both British and American actors – this year’s company includes Simon Russell Beale, Ethan Hawke, Sinéad Cusack, Rebecca Hall – The Cherry Orchard and its sister production The Winter’s Tale...
...Director Mikael Hafström stages his world-weary hero’s nocturnal ordeal as a virtual solo for John Cusack....
...The superb Sinead Cusack, who plays both Eleanor and the grown-up Esme (as she did in London), makes a simple “yes” heart-stopping....
...In Eleanor (beautifully played by Sinead Cusack), these things come together powerfully, so we feel more fully Stoppard’s central irony....
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