I Am the Wind
From: Tuesday, 3rd May 2011
To: Saturday, 21 May 2011
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Synopsis
Two lifelong travelling companions are bound together on a journey across a vast ocean. As night falls, they drink together, cook for one another and test each other in ways neither could have thought possible. A light, comic, deeply moving exploration of the never ending struggle to be human.
Our Review:
Michael Coveney - 11 May 2011
Blink, and a life is gone, gone with the wind, or even on the wind. Tom Brooke at the Young Vic simply “is” the wind. He’s on a boat with Jack Laskey, and they meld into the horizon. Nebulous isn’t the word for Norwegian dramatist Jon Fosse’s play, done into English by Simon Stephens. Non-existent is nearer the mark, as in essentially and existentially non-existent.
And yet this strange, irritating piece of post-Beckettian, self-erasing fiddle-faddle exerts a beguiling, hypnotic pull. Patrice Chereau’s production, designed by Richard Peduzzi and lit by Dominique Bruguiere, with a magically elemental sound score by Eric Neveux, is unusual, extraordinary, weird, and beautiful.
The theatre is bathed in a cold grey light. The ground level arena is a beach, with an expanse of water in the middle. Laskey as The Other carries Brooke as The One to the sea’s edge. He stands there with him for ages. A stranded pair of boots ...
Latest User Review
a theatre lover - 16 May 2011:
Dies on its feet as you watch it -desperate to put them out of their misery - let them both drown in the opening scene and then we can go home without all the pseudo esoteric navel gazing! ...
Creative
Jon Fosse (Author)
Young Vic (Producer)
Theatre de la Ville-Paris (Producer)
Simon Stephens (Translation)
Patrice Chereau (with the collaboration with Thierry Thieu Niang) (Director)
Richard Peduzzi (Design)
Caroline de Vivaise (Costume)
Eric Neveux (Sound)
Dominique Bruguiere (Lighting)
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