Despite a live soundtrack of bluegrass and country songs, the theatrical production of 'Brokeback Mountain,' starring Lucas Hedges and Mike Faist, only proves you can have too much fidelity. Read the review here:
’s premiere of a stage version is never in doubt. But despite a live soundtrack of bluegrass and country songs, the production only proves you can have too much fidelity. Sticking so doggedly to the original, the production fails to find anything approaching a satisfying theatrical form.
Theatricality is attempted in two ways. The live, accompanying soundtrack of 13 songs, soulfully sung not by the actors but by Scots singer Eddi Reader, is there to create the mood so vividly captured by the film’s cinematography. But evocative though the music of the easeful four-piece band is, the songwriting is unmemorable as it tips over from initially atmospheric into generic.
But where the dialogue of story and screenplay were filled out with respectively, authorial voice and close-ups allowing everyone to read the emotions, this stage version leaves the stranded actors nothing with which to replace either device. When characters express themselves in extended dialogue, everything goes up a gear. But those moments are rare and occur too late in the story.
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