[Esta é a minha cara depois de ler esta notícia. Isto é demais para o meu ticky-ticker, anda tudo a fazer dream teams (como estes também!)]
Though comedies were once just as common and successful on Broadway as dramas and musicals, sometime around the 1980s they started disappearing. Now it seems that if no one’s singing, no one’s laughing. Last season, only two traditional nonmusical comedies opened, a revival from 1946 and one from 1895! But Broadway makes up for lost time with this fall’s Relatively Speaking, a trio of one-act comedies by Ethan Coen, Elaine May, and Woody Allen. The works, featuring Julie Kavner, Ari Graynor, and Marlo Thomas, are loosely linked by a family theme: Allen’s contribution, Honeymoon Motel, is set at a wedding; May’s George Is Dead at a funeral; and Coen’s Talk Therapy, well, in Coen-land. It will fall to John Turturro, making his Broadway directing debut, to bring coherence to three rather different comedic styles: Allen’s existential juggling, May’s sly warmth, Coen’s creepy hilarity. Asked which playwright is most likely to drive him crazy, he says, “If you expect me to answer that question, I would never have gotten the job.”
The official announcement of the production did not specify titles or plotlines for the three plays, but The New York Times reports that Allen’s play is titled Honeymoon Motel and was written within four weeks after the Oscar-winning writer and director received a call from producer Julian Schlossberg. “It’s a broad comedy, for laughs, no redeeming social value,” Allen said in an interview. May’s play is reportedly titled George Is Dead, and Coen’s is called Talking Cure. A website for Relatively Speaking says that the plays are "about mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, parents and children...a heartfelt and hilarious evening of one-act plays with a common bond: the insanity that can only come from family."
& daqui
