The Broadway production “Sea Wall/A Life” opened at the Hudson Theatre Aug. 8, following a successful Off Broadway run at the Public Theater earlier this year. The following is Marilyn …
Both plays take place on the same stone-cold set — two levels of solid brick walls — designed by Laura Jelinek and lighted with beautiful bleakness by Guy Hoare. The rest is left to the imagination in this stark production directed by Carrie Cracknell.“People like me,” says Alex in “Sea Wall.” “They think I’m gentle.” In Sturridge’s devastating performance, Alex’s demeanor seems more like shell-shock. That’s perfectly understandable, given the harrowing tale he tells.
Stephens continually interrupts Alex’s fluid narrative with remembrances of his wife Helen and the birth of his daughter. The chunks of these two separate stories aren’t necessarily cohesive, but they’re always jolting. As is Sturridge’s performance, an aching and deeply disturbing cry of pain. Abe speaks the most moving lines of this emotional evening when he defines what Payne calls the three kinds of death: the physical death when the body stops functioning, the emotional death when the body is buried, and the eternal death when our names are spoken aloud for the very last time on earth. To his credit, Gyllenhaal avoids the temptation to exploit these bruising lines. His delivery is simple and direct, but the feeling he projects is suffering incarnate.
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Carrie Cracknell Directs ‘Sea Wall/A Life’ on BroadwayWatch Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge put up promo posters for their two-play production “Sea Wall/A Life.” Find out more about the Broadway production.
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