Here is a NEW pic and interview of Tobias Menzies in ‘Uncla Vanya’
From An Arts Journal Blog:
You might think someone who had spent a hefty proportion of their evenings in the theatre, at the movies, in front of TV dramas or news broadcasts of politicians might have a few ideas of what acting is about. But, like many audience members, I still consider it a little bit of magic. The alchemy of turning second-hand words into first-hand emotion.
As for Paul Rhys and Tobias Menzies (pictured top by Manuel Harlan) as Vanya/Johnny and Astrov/Michael – each seems to have become the man they hoped they’d never be. Menzies’ doctor is a visitor. Wherever he is, he’s just passing through. He maintains a commentary of subvocal murmurs, winces and shrugs, always with the reaction shot, never wholly in the room. No wonder he doesn’t notice Sonya’s devotion. Late at night, drunk as a skunk, he pulls off his shirt and dances to Bowie with a whole-hearted disconnection from his own body: cranking his joints to ungainly angles, summoning soft flesh to slump.
Read the rest of the article here
I believe this man is one of the best actors I’ve seen in a very, very long time.
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