Daniel Radcliffe Gains The Victory Of Magical Reviews
The
former Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe known to have gained the
victory of magical reviews for his latest stage role as a disabled Irish
dreamer in Martin McDonagh's The Cripple
of Inishmaan. Radcliffe plays the title role in a Michael
Grandage-directed production of McDonagh's scandalous tragicomedy at
London's Noel Coward Theatre.
First
staged in 1996, the play is a disorderly dark take on Irish identity
from the writer-director of plays inclusive of The Beauty Queen Of
Leenane, as well as the movies In Bruges and Seven Psychopaths.
Radcliffe
stars as Billy, a 17-year-old orphan on a remote island in 1930s
Ireland, who observes a fortune of escape from a life of boredom and
mockery when an American film crew
arrives on a neighbouring island to shoot the film Man Of Aran. The
23-year-old actor had to master the part's taxing physical demands, its
emotional shifts as well as a strong Irish accent.
Furthermore,
Michael Billington from The Guardian's said on Wednesday the
performance proved that Radcliffe is a fine stage actor with a gift for
playing social outsiders, while Times of London critic Libby Purves praised his still, melancholy intensity and resolve.
Image Source: The Cripple of Inishmaan
(AW:Samrat Biswas)
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