Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist’s high-altitude love story is about to gallop onto the theatrical stage this spring.
London’s @sohoplace theater on Monday introduced plans to adapt Annie Proulx’s brief story “Brokeback Mountain” as a “play with music.” The story was the premise for Ang Lee’s Oscar-winning 2005 film starring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal.
Lucas Hedges and Mike Faist will star as Del Mar and Twist, two rival cowboys who fall in love after being employed to herd sheep on a Wyoming mountain in the summertime of 1963. Ledger and Gyllenhaal each acquired Academy Award nominations for his or her respective portrayals of Ennis and Jack within the movie.
The stage model of “Brokeback Mountain” is written by Ashley Robinson, with songs by Dan Gillespie Sells and course by Jonathan Butterell. The romantic drama will run from Could 10 to Aug. 12.
Talking to Selection, Robinson and producer Nica Burns burdened that the play is an adaptation of Proulx’s unique story, first revealed by the New Yorker in 1997, versus the movie. The story was additionally the premise for a 2018 New York Metropolis Opera adaptation, which featured music by Charles Wuorinen.
“I’m honored to be entrusted by Annie Proulx to convey new life in new kind to her timeless and common story,” Robinson mentioned. “A narrative which means a lot to so many, and can certainly imply as a lot to an entire new era.”
Burns informed Selection the manufacturing will focus “on the connection between our two lead characters with Eddi Reader’s memorable voice including to the heartbreak because the soundtrack of their lives. To have Mike Faist and Lucas Hedges, two excellent younger American actors enjoying Jack and Ennis is an actual coup.”
An Oscar and Golden Globe nominee, Hedges is finest identified for his portrayal of sardonic teen Patrick Chandler in 2016’s “Manchester by the Sea.”
In 2018, he starred within the movie model of Garrard Conley’s memoir “Boy Erased,” enjoying a queer teen whose mother and father stress him into attending a “conversion remedy” camp in hopes of “curing” him of same-sex attraction. His different credit embody “Girl Fowl” and “Three Billboards Outdoors Ebbing, Missouri.”
Faist obtained his begin on Broadway within the ensemble forged of the 2012 musical “Newsies.” 5 years later, he acquired a Tony nomination for his portrayal of Connor Murphy in “Expensive Evan Hansen,” starring Ben Platt. He had his first main movie function in Steven Spielberg’s “West Facet Story” in 2021, enjoying Riff.
Each actors are making the West Finish stage debuts within the manufacturing.
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