“It’s not that I don’t trust you”
Great piece by Alexis Soloskinov in today’s New York Times, titled: A Visit to the Strange, Secretive World of David Bowie’s ‘Lazarus’.
An appropriate title considering the nature of T J Newton’s character. In fact, you may have noticed that today’s lyric quotation is actually a line of dialogue spoken by him in The Man Who Fell To Earth.
Soloskinov caught up with director Ivo van Hove during rehearsals and he managed to wheedle a few tantalising snippets out of him, such as this:
“Lazarus focuses on Newton as he remains on Earth, a man unable to die, his head soaked in cheap gin, and haunted by a past love. We follow Newton through the course of a few days where the arrival of another lost soul might set him free.”
The feature also points out that Lazarus has become the fastest-selling show that the Off Broadway New York Theatre Workshop has produced in its 36 years.
Lazarus begins preview performances a week tomorrow on Wednesday, November 18th, and it opens on December 7th.
Read the full New York Times piece here.
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