“We’ve discussed this. We’ve discussed this many times.” That wearied line, which appears in the final scene of David Hare’s new play “Straight Line Crazy,” is spoken by Ariel Porter (Samuel Barnet…
). But while it serves as a rebuke to Moses, it also sums up the besetting sin of the show now premiering at the Bridge Theatre in London. The play is made up of discussion, often energized by hard-working actors, but while Hare famously fashioned debates around the Iraq War into the invigorating “The base material, the story behind Moses’s spectacular rise and fall, is fascinating.
To explore all this requires imparting vast amounts of information and attitudes, not least because Hare focuses on just two pivotal moments in Moses’s career: at the start of the Long Island project which began it all, and then his unrealized attempt to build a road through Washington Square Park. The exception is the extended, dynamic scene between Fiennes and his power-devouring state governor Al Smith, in a fireball of a performance by Danny Webb. Chewing a cigar, knocking back bourbon, growling and grinning, he’s thrillingly unpredictable, flashing between lethal ease, riotously enjoyable fury and back again in a heartbeat. Webb heats up the stage with delicious danger, giving the impressive Fiennes a run for his money.
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