Bluebird
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Aug 22, 2011
Closed Sep 9, 2011
Opened Aug 22, 2011
Closed Sep 9, 2011
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Jimmy MacNeill (Simon Russell Beale) is a London taxi driver who seems to draw personal stories and confessions from his passengers without even trying. Over the course of Simon Stephens' meticulously observed and deeply compassionate play, the truth of Jimmy's own life and secret burdens unfurls with each new "fare." In this acclaimed early play, the first of several he has since had produced at the Royal Court Theatre, Stephens illuminates big questions about how we transcend our own mistakes, and the value and cost of intimacy. He is an unparalleled observer of the small details that unlock joy and pain for the throngs of people anonymously going about their business in the big city.
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Simon Russell Beale is among the greatest English actors working on stage, and now New Yorkers have another chance to watch him -- at close quarters, no less -- in the Simon Stephens' intermissionless drama Bluebird, now at Atlantic Stage 2, in which he delivers yet another must-see performance.
Beale plays Jimmy, a London cabbie on his standard night shift, but with something more pressing on his mind than usual. What's nagging at him is only slowly revealed, however, as Jimmy travels the less touristy pockets of London, picking up a colorful cross-section of passengers, many of whom act as if they've mistaken the taxi for a confessional and Jimmy for their absolving priest.
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