Therese Raquin 2015 - Articles Page 1.8
Run Time:
Two hours and 30 minutes, with one intermission
Opened: October 29, 2015Two hours and 30 minutes, with one intermission
Closing: January 03, 2016
Therese Raquin - 2015 - Broadway History , Info & More
Studio 54 (Broadway)
254 West 54th St. New York, NY
In this tale of love, lust, betrayal, and guilt, based upon the novel by Emile Zola, Therese has made peace with her loveless marriage to a weak man when her world is turned upside down by Laurent walking through the door. Unable to ignore their passion, the pair sets off on a violent path that may have far worse consequences for the perpetrators than for the victims.
Therese Raquin - 2015 - Broadway Cast
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‘Thérèse Raquin’ Review: Lethal Leading Lady
7 / 10
Any way you gnaw it, though, 'Thérèse Raquin' is a dreary hambone that once was shocking but is now quaint, and Helen Edmundson...has done no better by Zola. The pacing is arthritic...As for Ms. Knightley, she gives the kind of flat, underprojected performance you'd expect from an untrained Broadway debutante with limited stage experience. Her deficiencies are underlined by the excellent acting of Gabriel Ebert and Matt Ryan, who respectively play Thérèse's husband and lover. Beowulf Boritt designed the easy-on-the-eye Monet-style set, while Josh Schmidt, America's finest composer of incidental music for the stage, fills the air with hauntingly cloudy harmonies. If only their talents had been joined in the service of a better script -- and a stronger star!
Review: Keira Knightley shines but 'Therese Raquin' doesn't
6 / 10
Director Evan Cabnet has encouraged the humor, passion and the horror but all those elements stewing together over the 2½-hour play eventually start to spoil. The horror doesn't really stay sustained, the love curdles oddly and the humor breaks the momentum of both...Knightley gives it her all and she's wonderful as she goes from odd duck...to lip-quivering lust...As her sickly, dismissive husband Camille, Gabriel Ebert is superb and Ryan is strong as the overwhelmed lover, but Judith Light as Camille's mother is too, well, nice. Light is supposed to be overbearing and sour but comes across as simply doting. Her triumph at the end is muted. Perhaps the show's biggest star isn't Knightley at all but Beowulf Boritt, whose set design is remarkable and sublime.
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