I am really pleased to know that some of you have managed to get tickets for Betrayal, and although I am quite envious, I am so looking forward to reading your reviews and comments. I hope the production lives up to expectations and is well-received by the critics. It will certainly be a financial success based on advance ticket sales, but I hope for a great critical success too. I am also looking forward to seeing some more photos of D&R in the coming months.
Sf, you say you have a ticket for the first preview performance; do you also have a ticket for a performance following opening night on 27 October? It will be interesting to know what changes the director and cast make.
Betrayal - Bye, Bye...
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I just wish they could have done a split run - half NYC, half London. He's 2 for 2 Broadway now. I understand that there's no way he'd leave Rachel for 14 weeks to do a play and that there's no way she'd leave Henry (and she can't take him from school or from Darren forbthat long), but it's unfortunate for those of you lucky enough to live over there. I bet there will be quite a few British actors on BA flights from Heathrow to JFK a couple days before opening night.cheryl1700 wrote:Glad you got a ticket to see your dream man in close up too! Hope you really enjoy it
Daniel Craig Heads Back to Broadway with 'Betrayal'
http://www.npr.org/2013/09/18/223752897 ... h-betrayal
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Nice, thanks Cass. So, the real thingh is still to come.
I hope, they really DO manage to leave it behind after the show because bringing in those vibes of betrayal into daily married life etc. ain't too good.
I hope, they really DO manage to leave it behind after the show because bringing in those vibes of betrayal into daily married life etc. ain't too good.
The top notch acting in the Weisz/Craig/Spall 'Betrayal' is emotionally true, often v funny and its beautifully staged with filmic qualities..
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Omg. I could listen to that interview a gazillion times. What a voice. And yes, nice interview.
I get the impression that he means it when he says that Broadway audiences are the best. I'm interested in why. Why better than London? Is it because British people are considered more reserved?
I also found it interesting to hear how frightened he is at first on stage. It makes me more interested to be there the first night. I'll throw him a Xanax on he stage. LOL. Also interesting to hear him say how he wishes he had gone into University. His life has turned out so amazing. He may not be in the place he is today (same career and wife) had he gone on. But I suppose he means he could have done that too.
Wonderful interview. Dang, he is so sexy.
I get the impression that he means it when he says that Broadway audiences are the best. I'm interested in why. Why better than London? Is it because British people are considered more reserved?
I also found it interesting to hear how frightened he is at first on stage. It makes me more interested to be there the first night. I'll throw him a Xanax on he stage. LOL. Also interesting to hear him say how he wishes he had gone into University. His life has turned out so amazing. He may not be in the place he is today (same career and wife) had he gone on. But I suppose he means he could have done that too.
Wonderful interview. Dang, he is so sexy.
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Just listened to it now. He is indeed or seems very relaxed. His voice is sorta low and very quiet. Nice.
But what I got out of it is, that he indeed is questioning his ability to choose the right projects, which is not a surprise really, but is it right to do it?
In my book almost all of his projects held a promise to be good or even great. Aside from C&A, where none of them seemed to have bothered to really read the cript, all had great directors and promising plots. Why - in the end - they lacked the necessary magic? I dunno - maybe just unlucky...
But what I got out of it is, that he indeed is questioning his ability to choose the right projects, which is not a surprise really, but is it right to do it?
In my book almost all of his projects held a promise to be good or even great. Aside from C&A, where none of them seemed to have bothered to really read the cript, all had great directors and promising plots. Why - in the end - they lacked the necessary magic? I dunno - maybe just unlucky...
The top notch acting in the Weisz/Craig/Spall 'Betrayal' is emotionally true, often v funny and its beautifully staged with filmic qualities..
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Loved, loved, loved that interview! I must listen it through headphones next, to have that honey dripping straight into my ears... His voice is so warm and cosy in it, he seems good-humoured and friendly, and yes - quite honest about his choices.
Never mind, GG - he's been true to himself, and that's what matters. When he looks back over his life I'm sure he's content to think that he's worked with brilliant people and had some great experiences. And if a few turned out to be turkeys, he went into them honestly and gained something from each I'm sure. Even C&A, which gave him the chance to work with Harrison Ford and have fun. And there are still many pieces of work for which he can justifiably feel very proud.
Listening to that makes me wish I could take him and Rachel down to the pub and listen to their stories.
I really hope this play is a blinding success for them.
Never mind, GG - he's been true to himself, and that's what matters. When he looks back over his life I'm sure he's content to think that he's worked with brilliant people and had some great experiences. And if a few turned out to be turkeys, he went into them honestly and gained something from each I'm sure. Even C&A, which gave him the chance to work with Harrison Ford and have fun. And there are still many pieces of work for which he can justifiably feel very proud.
Listening to that makes me wish I could take him and Rachel down to the pub and listen to their stories.
I really hope this play is a blinding success for them.
Here's the transcript for those who don't understand everything in a first "hearing":
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST:
A revival of Harold Pinter's 1978 play "Betrayal" is in rehearsal in New York. "Betrayal" is the story of an affair and it unfolds backwards in time from the lovers sharing a post-romantic drink to the passion they first shared seven years earlier. Along the way, much deceptive betrayal is revealed. Mike Nichols is directing this production and it features Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz and Rafe Spall.
And Daniel Craig joins us from New York. Welcome to the program.
DANIEL CRAIG: It's a pleasure to be here.
SIEGEL: You play Robert, Rachel Weisz plays your wife, Emma, Rafe Spall plays Robert's best friend and Emma's lover, Jerry. Since you and Rachel Weisz are real life husband and wife, is rehearsal 24/7? Is there an unusual number of pauses in your conversation at home?
CRAIG: What's interesting about the play is that it's sort of very intense, and a very intense thing to do, but we manage just to go home and just sort of leave it there at work. I think otherwise it would be too difficult to do.
SIEGEL: It's not the subject of conversation at home about how that happened and...
CRAIG: We don't talk to each other about it, no. We separate about it. You know, she gets on with her thing, I get on with my thing. And we decided to do that because it's important to be separate entities when you're at work.
SIEGEL: I tend to think of "Betrayal" as a contemporary play, but I realized that I recently interviewed the actress Rebecca Hall, whose father was the original director in both London and New York and she wasn't born yet when this play was first staged.
CRAIG: She's very young.
SIEGEL: I just wonder, do you find that this is at all dated, or does it feel contemporary to you?
CRAIG: Surprisingly contemporary. But I think that when you have someone as good as Pinter, it remains timeless and the themes are timeless and it's just good writing.
SIEGEL: On the other hand, there are moments when your character says perhaps he should have had the affair with Jerry. That sounds different to people in 2013 than it did in 19...
CRAIG: It may do, yeah. Pinter was very tough about that. I mean, he said there's no homosexual kind of overtones at all in the play, but obviously we're throwing loads in 'cause it's - just to let you know.
SIEGEL: You're throwing that in.
CRAIG: Yeah. I don't know. I mean, the play brings up so many levels of emotion that you sort of pick away at it and you find more and more things. We discuss everything and sort of what that means and what it doesn't mean and either throw it out or keep it in. It just depends on how the rehearsal is going.
SIEGEL: You dive very deeply into this during the rehearsal period.
CRAIG: I mean, I wouldn't know any other way. I mean, I don't think there is another way to do it. You can't do it halfway.
SIEGEL: The men in "Betrayal" are Oxbridge literati. They seem to be from a stratum of British society perhaps your Cambridge-educated real-life wife grew up in, but this isn't your native ground.
CRAIG: No, as far away as possible from me, I suppose. I left school at 16, so I wish I'd stayed and I wish I'd gone on to a university education, but I eventually went to college and I studied acting, so I got there eventually.
SIEGEL: When did you decide you would be an actor, that this was something you wanted to do?
CRAIG: Very early. Just the sort of desire to dress up and show off, which is still with me, got me when I was probably about four or five, I think.
SIEGEL: What did you dress up as?
CRAIG: Anything. Anything I could.
SIEGEL: Maureen Dowd recently wrote a story for the New York Times about the...
CRAIG: Which I haven't read, so if you start quoting it, I will - I'll be in the dark.
SIEGEL: So you don't know, although there are many words in this piece, you don't know what the first two words are in that storyline?
CRAIG: No, I don't. I don't. I try not to read stuff anymore.
SIEGEL: Well, the first two words are James Bond.
CRAIG: Well, that's probably 'cause I play him.
SIEGEL: I've heard that. How do you regard this identity? Is this liberation that permitted you to do what you want? Is it a burden? How do you deal with it?
CRAIG: It's pretty good, on the whole. I've been lucky enough to be handed something as iconic as this and I've been enjoying doing it and I want to kind of, you know, make the most of it and make it as good as I can. My feeling has always been that I'd like to leave it in a good place so that it can continue after me.
SIEGEL: You can choose what you want to do now?
CRAIG: Yes. I mean, it doesn't make my choices good, though. I wish it could give me taste. But, you know, you kind of go with your heart and I think that's the best thing to do. Certainly in my case, in making choices about the work I want to do. Do I like it? Do I love it? Do I like the people involved? And then, you know, it's a no-brainer.
SIEGEL: Tell me about the choice to do "Betrayal."
CRAIG: The cast. The director. The play. I mean, too many good things. Another chance to kind of go back to Broadway, which is on one hand incredibly scary, and on another just an exhilarating thing to do. Broadway audiences are just like nowhere else on Earth.
SIEGEL: Going on Broadway is both exhilarating but also scary.
CRAIG: I mean, standing up in front of people and pretending to know what you're talking about is hard enough, you know what I mean, in any profession. It's just a big deal, certainly for the first couple of weeks, it's like a very foreign place. And hopefully then it settles down, and you can start feeling kind of comfortable with it and making it better and continue to make it better as the run goes on.
SIEGEL: Well, Mr. Craig, thank you very much for talking with us.
CRAIG: My pleasure, absolute pleasure.
SIEGEL: Daniel Craig, who appears in the forthcoming Broadway production of "Betrayal" with his wife Rachel Weisz and Rafe Spall.
source: http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript ... =223752897
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST:
A revival of Harold Pinter's 1978 play "Betrayal" is in rehearsal in New York. "Betrayal" is the story of an affair and it unfolds backwards in time from the lovers sharing a post-romantic drink to the passion they first shared seven years earlier. Along the way, much deceptive betrayal is revealed. Mike Nichols is directing this production and it features Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz and Rafe Spall.
And Daniel Craig joins us from New York. Welcome to the program.
DANIEL CRAIG: It's a pleasure to be here.
SIEGEL: You play Robert, Rachel Weisz plays your wife, Emma, Rafe Spall plays Robert's best friend and Emma's lover, Jerry. Since you and Rachel Weisz are real life husband and wife, is rehearsal 24/7? Is there an unusual number of pauses in your conversation at home?
CRAIG: What's interesting about the play is that it's sort of very intense, and a very intense thing to do, but we manage just to go home and just sort of leave it there at work. I think otherwise it would be too difficult to do.
SIEGEL: It's not the subject of conversation at home about how that happened and...
CRAIG: We don't talk to each other about it, no. We separate about it. You know, she gets on with her thing, I get on with my thing. And we decided to do that because it's important to be separate entities when you're at work.
SIEGEL: I tend to think of "Betrayal" as a contemporary play, but I realized that I recently interviewed the actress Rebecca Hall, whose father was the original director in both London and New York and she wasn't born yet when this play was first staged.
CRAIG: She's very young.
SIEGEL: I just wonder, do you find that this is at all dated, or does it feel contemporary to you?
CRAIG: Surprisingly contemporary. But I think that when you have someone as good as Pinter, it remains timeless and the themes are timeless and it's just good writing.
SIEGEL: On the other hand, there are moments when your character says perhaps he should have had the affair with Jerry. That sounds different to people in 2013 than it did in 19...
CRAIG: It may do, yeah. Pinter was very tough about that. I mean, he said there's no homosexual kind of overtones at all in the play, but obviously we're throwing loads in 'cause it's - just to let you know.
SIEGEL: You're throwing that in.
CRAIG: Yeah. I don't know. I mean, the play brings up so many levels of emotion that you sort of pick away at it and you find more and more things. We discuss everything and sort of what that means and what it doesn't mean and either throw it out or keep it in. It just depends on how the rehearsal is going.
SIEGEL: You dive very deeply into this during the rehearsal period.
CRAIG: I mean, I wouldn't know any other way. I mean, I don't think there is another way to do it. You can't do it halfway.
SIEGEL: The men in "Betrayal" are Oxbridge literati. They seem to be from a stratum of British society perhaps your Cambridge-educated real-life wife grew up in, but this isn't your native ground.
CRAIG: No, as far away as possible from me, I suppose. I left school at 16, so I wish I'd stayed and I wish I'd gone on to a university education, but I eventually went to college and I studied acting, so I got there eventually.
SIEGEL: When did you decide you would be an actor, that this was something you wanted to do?
CRAIG: Very early. Just the sort of desire to dress up and show off, which is still with me, got me when I was probably about four or five, I think.
SIEGEL: What did you dress up as?
CRAIG: Anything. Anything I could.
SIEGEL: Maureen Dowd recently wrote a story for the New York Times about the...
CRAIG: Which I haven't read, so if you start quoting it, I will - I'll be in the dark.
SIEGEL: So you don't know, although there are many words in this piece, you don't know what the first two words are in that storyline?
CRAIG: No, I don't. I don't. I try not to read stuff anymore.
SIEGEL: Well, the first two words are James Bond.
CRAIG: Well, that's probably 'cause I play him.
SIEGEL: I've heard that. How do you regard this identity? Is this liberation that permitted you to do what you want? Is it a burden? How do you deal with it?
CRAIG: It's pretty good, on the whole. I've been lucky enough to be handed something as iconic as this and I've been enjoying doing it and I want to kind of, you know, make the most of it and make it as good as I can. My feeling has always been that I'd like to leave it in a good place so that it can continue after me.
SIEGEL: You can choose what you want to do now?
CRAIG: Yes. I mean, it doesn't make my choices good, though. I wish it could give me taste. But, you know, you kind of go with your heart and I think that's the best thing to do. Certainly in my case, in making choices about the work I want to do. Do I like it? Do I love it? Do I like the people involved? And then, you know, it's a no-brainer.
SIEGEL: Tell me about the choice to do "Betrayal."
CRAIG: The cast. The director. The play. I mean, too many good things. Another chance to kind of go back to Broadway, which is on one hand incredibly scary, and on another just an exhilarating thing to do. Broadway audiences are just like nowhere else on Earth.
SIEGEL: Going on Broadway is both exhilarating but also scary.
CRAIG: I mean, standing up in front of people and pretending to know what you're talking about is hard enough, you know what I mean, in any profession. It's just a big deal, certainly for the first couple of weeks, it's like a very foreign place. And hopefully then it settles down, and you can start feeling kind of comfortable with it and making it better and continue to make it better as the run goes on.
SIEGEL: Well, Mr. Craig, thank you very much for talking with us.
CRAIG: My pleasure, absolute pleasure.
SIEGEL: Daniel Craig, who appears in the forthcoming Broadway production of "Betrayal" with his wife Rachel Weisz and Rafe Spall.
source: http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript ... =223752897
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