Public Theater, New York
The Oscar nominee and Tom Sturridge star in two one-act memory pieces that meaningfully explore birth, death, and fatherhood
Opening this week at New York’s Public Theater is a pair of inspired one-act monologues, Sea Wall and A Life, the former starring Tom Sturridge and the latter Jake Gyllenhaal.
Watching these memory pieces, which together achieve a tonally ambitious mix of blunt truth and wistful, freewheeling evocation, I recalled a quote from the writer Eudora Welty’s memoir. “The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourself they find their own order,” she wrote, rendering grief and family with mercy and clarity. “The time as we know it subjectively is often the chronology that stories and novels follow: it is the continuous thread of revelation.”
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