BARD TIMES





Bard Times
By Adriana Leshko
Harper's Bazaar
Vol. 133, Issue 3466
Life
September 2000

Ralph Fiennes brings Shakespeare to Brooklyn




 IN 1995, RALPH FIENNES'S critically lauded Hamlet, produced by London's Almeida Theatre Company, made a seamless transition from Britain to Broadway, winning the actor a Tony--and arguably sparking a pop-culture Shakespeare revival. This month marks Fiennes's first American theater appearance since that career-making turn. From September 6 through October 1, the Brooklyn Academy of Music will present his latest collaboration with the Almeida: repertory productions of Shakespeare's Richard II and Coriolanus, with Fiennes in the title roles.

The reluctant celebrity's relationship with the company is as personal as it is professional. Joint artistic director Jonathan Kent directed him in both Hamlet and Chekov's Ivanov. "We have, I think, shared ideals about the power of theater to move and provoke," says Fiennes. Such lofty sentiments have their place, but the real thrill of the double bill is the chance to see Fiennes at his nefarious best. Both Richard II and Coriolanus are potent meditations on the corrosive effects of absolute power, and although they may not have the built-in name recognition of the moody Dane, savvy audiences shouldn't have any trouble deciding whether to see or not to see.








A Fiennes performance: In London as Richard II




 

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