Review: Closer

Challenging Closer

smolder and fizzle

by Sarah Deshaies

The producers of a play that has been adapted into an acclaimed movie have an extra challenge on their hands. Like literary fans watching the film adaption of of a beloved book, the audience comes with strong preconceived notions of the show they’re about to see. It's up to the cast and crew to create something that not only is not a carbon copy of what already exists, but also to build upon what came first.

First-Person: Andrew Zadel on Closer

Looking Closer

when a choice of a play should have been obvious

by Andrew Zadel

No matter how starkly obvious it seems to me now, the decision to mount Patrick Marber's Closer was not made overnight. I read dozens of scripts, as did Lydia Zadel, the co-artistic director of Chesterfield Productions, and Inka Malovic, a young Bosnian actress who trained at the Lee Strasberg Film and Theater Institute in New York. We made lists, had meetings, debated over spicy Thai food, made shorter lists, and had meetings in which previously shortened lists were made long again.