The premise of the play is that Carmichael (Christopher Walken) has been searching for his missing left hand for almost half a century. The curtain opens to Walken sitting on the bed in a seedy hotel room, wearing a long black coat and holding a gun. Before long, he has shot at someone in the closet (Anthony Mackie from Hurt Locker), a very odd desk clerk (Sam Rockwell) who has heard the gun shot shows up, and a young girl (Zoe Kazan) barges in, throwing a severed hand on the bed. At this point, we each decided to just embrace the wierdness and sit back and enjoy the ride as it got more and more bizarre. Although Rockwell was great as the desk clerk with a strange sort of death-wish, Kazan and Mackie became a little annoying after awhile in the roles of a young (rather stupid) couple trying to pull a scam and ending up in the middle of craziness. When Walken was on the stage, however, everything fell oddly into place. It was definitely an experience to see him perform!
Monday, March 29, 2010
Our Last Day :(
Sunday morning we had a yummy breakfast with our pals Casey and Ben at Pigalli's before checking out of our hotel and heading out to see Martin McDonagh's new play A Behanding in Spokane. It is an incredibly wierd and bizarre play full of black, irreverant humor. McDonagh is certainly a very unusual Irish playright with a wonderfully warped and creative mind!
The premise of the play is that Carmichael (Christopher Walken) has been searching for his missing left hand for almost half a century. The curtain opens to Walken sitting on the bed in a seedy hotel room, wearing a long black coat and holding a gun. Before long, he has shot at someone in the closet (Anthony Mackie from Hurt Locker), a very odd desk clerk (Sam Rockwell) who has heard the gun shot shows up, and a young girl (Zoe Kazan) barges in, throwing a severed hand on the bed. At this point, we each decided to just embrace the wierdness and sit back and enjoy the ride as it got more and more bizarre. Although Rockwell was great as the desk clerk with a strange sort of death-wish, Kazan and Mackie became a little annoying after awhile in the roles of a young (rather stupid) couple trying to pull a scam and ending up in the middle of craziness. When Walken was on the stage, however, everything fell oddly into place. It was definitely an experience to see him perform!
The premise of the play is that Carmichael (Christopher Walken) has been searching for his missing left hand for almost half a century. The curtain opens to Walken sitting on the bed in a seedy hotel room, wearing a long black coat and holding a gun. Before long, he has shot at someone in the closet (Anthony Mackie from Hurt Locker), a very odd desk clerk (Sam Rockwell) who has heard the gun shot shows up, and a young girl (Zoe Kazan) barges in, throwing a severed hand on the bed. At this point, we each decided to just embrace the wierdness and sit back and enjoy the ride as it got more and more bizarre. Although Rockwell was great as the desk clerk with a strange sort of death-wish, Kazan and Mackie became a little annoying after awhile in the roles of a young (rather stupid) couple trying to pull a scam and ending up in the middle of craziness. When Walken was on the stage, however, everything fell oddly into place. It was definitely an experience to see him perform!
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