The Diary of a Madman
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Feb 16, 2011
Closed Mar 12, 2011
Opened Feb 16, 2011
Closed Mar 12, 2011
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Running Time:
2hr. 10min.
(includes 1 intermission)
2hr. 10min.
(includes 1 intermission)
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Academy, Emmy, and Tony Award winner Geoffrey Rush (Exit the King, Broadway) comes spectacularly unglued as the lowly civil servant Poprischin, driven mad by bureaucracy in Nikolai Gogol's darkly comic short story The Diary of a Madman, adapted for the stage by the astute director Neil Armfield and Australia's adventurous Belvoir (Cloudstreet, 2001 Next Wave; Exit the King, Sydney's Belvoir St Theatre).
A burnt-out paper-pusher who ekes out a meager living in czarist St. Petersburg, Poprischin spends his days doing menial tasks, anxious and teetering on the brink of lunacy. Or is it lucidity? Immobilized by a rigid social hierarchy, Poprischin cuts adrift from reality: hallucinating a canine love affair, imagining himself well above his station, and conjuring entire realms both incredible and terrifying. Deeper and deeper he sinks into delusion, and--thanks to Rush's astonishing performance--we, too, are eventually subsumed by a world in which reality is, at best, relative.
WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?
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Go, Right Now!!!!!
Absolutely Outstanding! He really is one of the greatest actors of our time! I feel so lucky to have seen this! If there is a question in your mind... just go.
Reviewed by Mallary
on Tuesday, Feb 22nd, 2011
RE:Go, Right Now!!!!!
Absolutely Outstanding! He really is one of the greatest actors of our time! I feel so lucky to have seen this! If there is a question in your mind... just go.
Reviewed by Mallary
on Tuesday, Feb 22nd, 2011
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A low-level bureaucrat's devolvement from delusion to insanity unfolds as both a gut-busting comedy and a harrowing tragedy in Diary of a Madman, now playing at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Harvey Theatre. But the play's not just the thing here: Tony Award winner Geoffrey Rush is delivering a performance of such deft physical skill and dazzling emotional intensity that it can be called only one thing: a "must-see."
Rush, sporting a filthy dark suit and wilted cravat (the excellently conceived costumes are by Tess Schofield) and topped with bob of brittle, thinning red hair with one huge forehead curl, plays Akesentil Poprishchin, a government clerk, who lives in an attic with a leaky ro[...]