Vicente Wolf Blog

I’ve resumed my busy theater-going schedule and have seen some really great plays both on and off Broadway. Among the shows I’ve seen is Mr & Mrs Fitch with John Lithgow and Jennifer Ehle. It’s a sophisticated New York comedy about marriage, generational gaps and all the BS that goes on in the press. The set is this amazing Manhattan apartment and I always am amazed when you see something as contemporary as this on stage and feel that they just cut out a piece of an apartment and put it on stage. John Lithgow was crackling in his delivery and it’s a very Noel Cowardish type of play.

I also saw Equivocations which takes place in the 15th century and it’s a fictional story about the Lord Shemberland coming to a then-poor Shakespeare and asking him to write a play about an attempted assassination (which really happened) and how the conspirators planned to blow up the House of Lords, but they caught them just in time. It was great fun.

Another play I saw was Time stands Still with Laura Lenny and Eric Bogosian, Brian d’Arcy James and Alicia Silverstone. It’s a compelling story about a war photographer who returns from Afghanistan after being blown up by a road bomb and her recuperation and desire to settle down in New York. It plays on the trials and tribulations about the decisions we all make about our future. Laura Lenny was really wonderful and completely believeable as a war correspondent.

Most recently I went to see Elton John and David Furnish’s Next Fall. This one was all about relationships that are not always accepted by society and the prejudices that people hold to those who are different to themselves. In the play one half of a gay couple ends up in a coma in hospital and his deeply religious family won’t allow his partner to be with him and don’t acknowledge him at all. The play relates to Proposition 8 in California and the injustice of not accepting people who are different to who you are.

These shows always offer me so much food for thought and are truly a highlight in my week. What have you seen lately that made your mind’s cogs work overtime?