John Turturro plays the sex-obsessed Mickey Sabbath in a stage adaptation of Philip Roth’s novel, and on Broadway Danny DeVito portrays a hoarder, Vinson Cunningham writes.
Turturro, now sixty-six, is the same slim and restless New York City sidewalk denizen he’s always been, but with a softened posture and a gentle white froth bubbling through the waves of his hair. The mischief’s still there, but alongside it, darkening its colors, is the shadow of experience.
All the meatball business comes later in Roth’s novel; Turturro and Levy’s decision to place it at the top announces the indulgently sensualist intentions of this production. Its purpose is largely cathartic rather than moral: it exists to make its audience squirm with the pleasures of dirty talk and the promise of dirty action. Here, bodily nastiness exists unquestioned, for its own sake.
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