A Bright Ray of Darkness

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The writing is lyrical and poetic, a worthy front stage drama set against a New York staging of the Bard's Henry IV.

Najčešće sam pogrešio kad sam uzeo da čitam nekakve kvazi- ili prave autobiografije poznatih ljudi koji misle da moraju nešto da kažu o svom životu. I figured I'd hit some plateau that was adulthood---where I believed things would just stay level for about forty years while I would do great work and have interesting experiences---then rather uneventfully I would begin to decay and die. However it could do with a better edit as the factual inaccuracies in the background are irritating: Gielgud did not play Hal opposite Olivier’s Hotspur; Peter Hall not James Hall was the artistic director of the RSC. But you don’t need a theater background to enjoy this first-person tale of a self-involved drug-addled film actor who’s destroyed his marriage by cheating and, in the throes of anxiety and self-pity, is making his Broadway debut in a production of Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2.It is detailed in its portrayal of theatre life, with a production of Shakespeare’s Henry Iv plays firming the back ground to the lead characters journey.

In 2005, he received his first screenwriting Oscar nomination for co-writing the 2004 film, Before Sunset (a sequel to Before Sunrise). He hadn’t written a book in twenty years but in this new novel he documents the plight of a screen actor who is simultaneously dealing with the breakdown of his marriage whilst making his Broadway debut in Shakespeare’s Henry IV. Driven by themes of redemption and forgiveness, Shakespeare quotes act as a cipher while the father, cast members and friends impart wisdom. There's definitely some male fantasy stuff happening re: the women in this book and there are problems to pick at this -- but also, the relationship particularly between William and the woman playing Lady Percy speaks to a depth of understanding about showmances that people outside of the theater can't ever really comprehend.

And the background of the novel's drama is a Broadway production of Shakespeare who, incidentally, is proved correct: "All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players. Having read his other work––his second book Ash Wednesday being a letdown (for me)––this just blew my mind! It's about an actor (well, duh) performing Shakespeare ( Henry IV) on Broadway as he is coming off a divorce to a big-time pop singer.

En "Un brillante rayo de oscuridad" el actor, director y escritor Ethan Hawke, intérprete de películas de culto como Antes de amanecer, ilustra cómo encontrar la pasión y el significado de nuestras vidas. There’s a section where the director lands his opening spiel on the cast as they gather together for the first time, I found it astounding in its power and impact. Mentre vita e teatro si intrecciano William ci racconta non solo la storia del suo fallimento amoroso, della sua confusione mentale, dei suoi maldestri tentativi di ricucire una storia ormai finita, ma anche l’essenza della sua esperienza di attore, quando il teatro rivela la meschina e sublime umanità di ciascuno. Now, I'm smart enough to know that blind pursuit of these kinds of shenanigans doesn't lead you to any kind of authentic, substantive, enlightened existence.But not everything seems based on real life - the Falstaff in the book is a blowhard actor named Virgil who is immensely fat .