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А тема Ролей Харрисона в театре меня не отпускет. Буду тут собирать маленькие о нем кусочки. Наверное по ролям можно немного больше узнать о Ренди, ведь четко же просматривается где он объективно хорош, а где мы его безусловной любовью любим! ))

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Randy Harrison is excellent as Alan Strang, the disturbed teenager who inexplicably blinds six horses. Again, it's a role that's ridden with cliches, but Harrison plays it believably, and handles the challenge of acting the last quarter of the play in flagrante delicto.

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However as Alan Strang, the 17-year-old stable boy who inexplicably blinded six horses with a metal spike, the blond and beatific Harrison takes the production on a glorious ride. He clearly breaks down the adolescent obsession that makes unbridled devotion the most dangerous of drugs.

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I would have liked to see director Eric Hill reign in Randy Harrison's excessive scatological playfulness with his Constanze (the appealing Tara Franklin), and focus a bit more on his unflagging belief in his musical gifts and the fascinating snippets about how a piece of music evolves.
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From the beginning the drama is heightened by the delayed entrance of Mozart, whom we keep hearing about but don't meet until nearly a half hour into the play. When we finally meet him, it's very much through Salieri's eyes, eavesdropping on a salacious, scatalogical tryst he's having with his wife-to-be. Those familiar with Timothy Hulce's portrayal of Mozart in the film version of AMADEUS will recognize many of the same behevioral tics and characteristics -- the high-pitched squeal of delighted laughter, the obsession with flatulence and elimination -- but Randy Harrison puts his own stamp on the characterization of Mozart, as an outwardly devilish, fun-loving individualist who sees through so much of the hypocrtical formality of the old feudal order in its waning days. That same impulse to overthrow the old order, to shake things up, runs through his music, we will learn.
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Harrison hits all the right notes as the exuberant, insouciant Mozart. His is a very outward-based performance, which works for the most part, as the sсript emphasizes the brash outwardness of his character and relies on our knowledge of his music to convince of his inner genius. The two were at odds in the second half, however, when Harrison is given a big speech about the role of opera and music, it's a funny and dynamic speech, but also a serious one, and here was the moment when we could have been given a glimpse into the inner, deeper Mozart, but Harrison came up short, seeming a little unconvincing, or rather, unconvinced in his internal commitment to what he was saying. One can easily imagine, however, that over the course of the run of the play Harrison will grow more comfortable with this soliloquy, and find the inner depths that as of opening night were still elusive to the actor as well as the audience.
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There are other people onstage in Amadeus, but to lesser effect. Queer as Folk star Randy Harrison fares much better as Mozart than he did as Alan Strang in BTF's 2005 production of Shaffer's Equus. But even though his young Mozart is randy as a goat and smug as a genius, the performance still pales. Harrison catches the character's irreverence but not his wit.

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Randy Harrison as Tom Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie
Director Joe Dowling's interpretation of the Tennessee Williams classic makes an interesting choice that is sure to have purists of the play up in arms. Dowling divides the role of the son Tom, into two parts. Tom is both the Narrator (Bill McCallum) that guides the audience through this memory and Young Tom himself (Harrison) within the memory. Someone who saw the play the same night as me actually said that "Tennessee Williams would roll over in his grave. Ok, maybe not, but he would certainly sit up."

Bill McCallum and Randy Harrison share the role of Tom Wingfield in this latest Guthrie Theater production
However, as a storytelling device, it does works. Tom the Narrator preserves the illusion of the memory by being the only person to break the fourth wall. Moreover, it is an opportunity for the audience to see how Tom feels about what he did in his youth. It was wonderful to watch this character remember how hot his temper ran, and feel again his profound pity for his crippled sister and witness his persistent disdain for his mother. At the very least, splitting the character in two provides a fine example of how compelling an actor can be just in presence, without the luxury of actual dialogue. And both Harrison and McCallum do really wonderful interior work.

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That emotional resolution is denied to Billy Bibbit, played with warmth and with physical frustrations by Randy Harrison in what I think is his finest work on this stage. He has a moment in the second act where his Billy is almost whole again and when he loses it, crumples it up and throws it away at the feet of Nurse Ratched, it is one of the most touching and heart-rending moments in this highly emotional play.

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Far stronger were the supporting “Acutes” – Randy Harrison as the timid …
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Somewhat less remarkable is Randy Harrison's (Queer As Folk, Wicked) turn as Billy Bibbit, the stuttering, suicidal neurotic. Harrison brings little that is unexpected to the role of Billy, doing a serviceable job but never probing beneath the text to summon nuance or originality.
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She and Ms. Banes must supply the show’s emotional center, but the actresses are surrounded by an able cast whose only weak link is a young actor, Randy Harrison, who fidgets his way so ferociously through the role of Vivie’s money-chasing suitor that I was tempted to offer him an Ativan.

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Harrison is just ever-so jolly and endearing as Frank. You know he’s a rotter, but he’s a good-hearted one who ultimately parts from Vivie for all the right reasons. Nelson is equally appealing emotionally as Praed, although he has not (and should not have) Harrison’s boyish charms. Temperly is easily identifiable as the cowardly and proud Pooh-Bah of this tale – constantly cowering from his own errors – and Hudson is delightfully odious as the story’s villain.

Ок, тут все что нашлось по Еquus. Без анализа значимости издания. Перевод зачастую схематичный, только чтобы понять хороший отзыв или нет.

Спасибо  moveforever за убедительную зашиту Ренди от моих подлых происков. Переведя все, признаюсь, что мое первое впечатление было ошибочным! Отзывы совершенно не однозначные и положительных больше! Какой спектакль будем препарировать теперь? )

EQUUS

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Randy Harrison is excellent as Alan Strang, the disturbed teenager who inexplicably blinds six horses. Again, it's a role that's ridden with cliches, but Harrison plays it believably, and handles the challenge of acting the last quarter of the play in flagrante delicto.

Рэнди Харрисон прекрасен в роли Алан Стрэнга, психически нестабильного подростка, который по неизвестной причине ослепил шесть лошадей. Опять же, в этой роли используются клише, но Харрисон играет правдоподобно, и справляется с непростой задачей заключительной четверти пьéсы - "пойман с поличным".

The cast of this EQUUS more than meets the challenge, especially Victor Slezak in the unenviable role of Dr. Martin Dysart. At times Slezak seemed to battle with the role, dropping lines and losing his accent, but he came out swinging in the second act and wrestled it, and the audience, to the ground.

Актеры занятые в постановке Equus справились с ролями более чем хорошо, особенно Виктор Слезак, в незавидной роли доктора Дизарта. Иногда казалось, что Слезак борется с ролью, теряет нить и сбивается с акцента, но во втором акте он раскачался и поборол это. (продолжаю настаивать на собственной тупости и не владении предметом. Если Слезак сбивался с акцента и терял сюжетную линию, то как же он “особенно хорошо” справился с ролью. Чего тогда остальные делали? Текст забывали начисто или на сцену выходили не вовремя?)

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However as Alan Strang, the 17-year-old stable boy who inexplicably blinded six horses with a metal spike, the blond and beatific Harrison takes the production on a glorious ride. He clearly the adolescent obsession that makes unbridled devotion the most dangerous of drugs.

Блаженный (я не знаю русского эквивалента слову: beatifically – выражаюшхий счастье и доброту, особенно в религиозном смысле) блондин Харрисон воплотил образ Алана Стрэнга, 17-летнего мальчика, который по неизвестной причине ослепил шесть лошадей, на великолепном уровне. Он убедител’но доказывает, что подростковые навязчивые идеи о безоговорочной преданности могут быт’ самым старшным наркотиком.
(Ну вы поняли, моя плохо говорит’ по русски, а еше хуже по английски!)

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цитата из ревью Boston Globe

"Randy Harrison, a star of Showtime's 'Queer as Folk," is one of the primary reasons for BTF's success. As the young man who turns on the horses he loves, Harrison produces a finely etched portrait of sublimation. He transfers his passion for Jesus to one for equus and other sources of ecstasy. What he conveys on an even deeper level is how innocence can so quickly turn to guilt. His religious mother and stern father have made stirrings of any sort seem sinful to him."

Ренди Харрисон, звезда сериал QAF, - одна из главных причин успеха Беркширского театрального фестиваля. В роли молодого человека, который неожиданно напал на лошадей, которых он любит, Харрисон в деталях изобразил механизм сублимации. Он перенес свою страсть к Иисусу на лошадей и другие объекты екстатической любви, и что ему удалось передать даже на на более глубоком уровне, это как быстро невинность может обратиться в вину. Его религиозная мать и строгий отец сделали так, что любое движение кажется ему греховным.

Dysart is the man assigned to lead him back to ''normalcy" following his criminal act, but Dysart's passionless life makes him wonder whether taking away someone else's desire is worth the price. Unfortunately, Slezak looks and sounds as if he has watched the film version starring Richard Burton too many times. Burton pulled off the difficult part; Slezak just seems silly.

К сожалению, Слезак выглядит и звучит так, как будто он слишком много раз посмотрел фильм с Ричардом Бертоном. Бертон справился с трудной частью, Слезак выглядел глупо.

4. July 15, 2005 performance, reviewed by Frances Benn Hall
Equus at Berkshire Theatre Festival

Randy Harrison as Alan Strang the distraught teen-ager becomes the character from the moment he chants his first singing commercial. He has experienced an ecstasy the doctor has never been capable of. He hides his secret; his domestic, religious, and sexual conflicts as long as he can, even gleefully reversing the roles and interrogating the doctor, but finally, seduced by a fake "truth pill," he is stripped naked to curl up in his bed — a "normal" young boy who will never again know passion. Every moment is beautifully and convincingly played.
As Martin Dysart, Randy’s unwilling psychiatrist, Victor Slezak is heart-wrenching, in self-deprecating monologs and in confrontations with the boy. Unhappily married, bound to a boring wife, unable to feel his life has had any meaning, he envies the child he must "heal" and try to transform into a life as meaningless as his own. His tragedy is as deep as Alan's and as wrenching in its immediacy. He knows he is lost and accepts his loss with a defeated objectivity.

Не буду переводить пересказ сюжета и сцен. Про Ренди сказано, что каждый момент он сыграл прекрасно и убедительно.

5. Harrison gallops well, published July 17, 2005
By Jeffrey Borak
Ничего не сказано об игре Ренди.
Про спектакль в целом:
From a technical standpoint, this is a terribly busy production -- distractingly so -- with its shifts of scenic elements. Moreover, the rhythm is erratic. Scenes do not flow naturally or easily into one another.

С технической точки зрения, это ужасно сложная постановка из-за смены сценических элементов. Более того, ритм спектакля непредсказуем. Сцены не переходят плавно одна в другую.

Slezak's Dysart also is somewhat problematic. Slezak has yet to find the balance between Dysart's clinical dispassion on the one hand and the roiling unease on the other. Slezak too often buries Dysart in intonations that smack of grand classical tragedy excess.

Дизарт Слезака тоже имеет свои проблемы. Слезаку еще предстоит найти баланс между клиническим бесстрастием Дизарта, с одной стороны, и охватившем его беспокойством с другой. Интонации Слезака слишком часто избыточно трагедийны и в этом пропадает Дизарт.

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Виктор Слезак очень убедителен в роли доктора Дизарта. Он такой каким должен быть. Он на сцене на протяжении всей пьесы.
Слезак изображает Дизарта как очень многогранного человека. Доктор Шеффера – это человек личная жизнь которого зашла в тупик, человек который мечтает о Древней Греции и завидует тем страстям, который переживает его пациент и которые толкают его в пропасть. Слезак сумел показать на сцене каждую из этих черт.
Это хорошая работа.
Роль больного подростка Стренга досталась телевизионному актеру Ренди Харрисону.
Харрисон просто не готов к роли.
На протяжении большей части первого акта, он неестественнен. Он произносит слова никак не проигрывая их, и это невозможно оправдать тем, что его персонаж закрытая личность.
Во втором акте - в котором Стрэнг начинает раскрывать причины своих действий – создается впечатление, что Харрисон боится своего персонажа. Он произносит текст, как будто это не имеет к нему отношения, и то как он выражает свое желание молодой девушки Джилл Мейсон, деревянно и неубедительно.
Главная идея “Еquus" – это конфликт между природой Стренга, религией и его сексуальностью. Он жертва опасной смеси из Библии, западных фильмы, детской литературы, английского социализма и бушующих гормонов, но в работе Харрисона это все отсутствует.

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The BTF production is fortunate to have Victor Slezak to take on the demanding role of the play's narrator and main player, Dr.Martin Dysart. Besides being masterfully at ease with the lengthy chunks of dialogue as well as the emotional demands of the role, Slezak makes the most of the text's metaphoric richness (as in his rueful "There is now, in my mouth, this charp chain. And it never comes out" and the dark the humorous lines with which Shaffer punctuates the text (for example, when he ironically deprecates his calling with "one great thing about being in the adjustment business: you're never short of customers"). Randy Harrison, perhaps best known to most people through TV's Queer as Folk, is not as nuanced an actor as Slezak or as adept at Brit-speak, but he's a perfect physical fit for the other key character, Alan Strang.

БТФ повезло заполучить Виктора Слезака на очень непростую роль рассказчика и главного героя доктора Мартина Дизарта. Помимо мастерской легкости в длинных диалогах и эмоциональной игры, Слезак привнес в текст метафорическую глубину (приводит примеры) и мрачные юмористические линии, при помощи которых Шаффер создает акценты в тексте пьесы. Рэнди Харрисон , известный большинству зрителей по сериал QAF, не настолько тонкий актер как Слезак и его Британский акцент не настолько хорош, но он идеально подходит для роли по физическим параметрам.
… этот Equus стоит посмотреть хотя бы из-за отличной игры Виктора Слезака.