Converse All You Want, but Don’t Expect Connection
Ben BrantleyJanuary 17, 2014: It can get pretty lonely for a guy in the middle of an ocean. That proposition — being pursued with intensity on screen by Robert Redford in All Is Lost — is also under consideration in the American premiere of I Am the Wind, by the Norwegian playwright Jon Fosse, at 59E59 Theaters. In this existential acting exercise of a play, directed by Paul Takacs, Mr. Fosse puts two men in a boat, instead of just one. But two, in this case, isn’t necessarily company. In Mr. Fosse’s world, conversation is no guarantee of connection.
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