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Audibly Toxic Men: Sexual Misconduct and Creditors
Hugh Jackman and Liev Schreiber lead complementary downtown experiments.
Jackman is the kind of performer — a greatest showman, if you will — who seems to be trailed by a spotlight wherever he goes, even in the modest space of the Minetta Lane Theater, where he’s producing Sexual Misconduct with the British impresario Sonia Friedman as part of a new venture called Together. Creditors, adapted by Jen Silverman with modern dialogue and a few crucial departures from August Strindberg’s 1889 play, takes up a similar inquiry as Sexual Misconduct: how to process the bitterness and manipulation of overlooked men. The alliterative cast members are all comfortably at home in this text, and they’ve developed complementary performances: Schreiber is decrepit but dangerous, like an old panther ready to swipe you with his paw at any moment; Smith finds a lane within naïveté that doesn’t obviate his character’s intelligence; and Siff, a firecracker onstage as usual, also brings an intriguing strain of self-doubt and worry to Tekla’s charisma.
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