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Brokeback Mountain is headed to the stage.
Mike Faist and Lucas Hedges volition pb the upcoming adaptation of Annie Proulx's iconic abbreviated communicative astatine @sohoplace successful London's West End. The play volition debut May 10, ending its tally connected Aug. 12.
Faist, champion known for Steven Spielberg's 2021 West Side Story adaptation, volition play Jack Twist, and Hedges—who received an Oscar information for his supporting relation successful the 2016 movie Manchester by the Sea—will represent Ennis Del Mar.
The play—which tells the communicative of a ranch-hand and a rodeo cowboy who conscionable aft they're hired to herd sheep successful Wyoming successful 1963 and autumn successful love—is written by Ashley Robinson and volition beryllium directed by Jonathan Butterell. It also features euphony by Dan Gillespie Sells, which volition beryllium performed by Eddi Reader.
"Brokeback Mountain has been recreated successful respective antithetic forms, each with its ain distinctive moods and impact," Proulx said successful a connection shared connected the theater's website. "Ashley's publication is caller and profoundly moving, opening show lines not disposable successful the archetypal nor successive treatments."
This upcoming signifier adaptation is the latest iteration of Brokeback Mountain, coming astir two decades aft the Ang Lee-directed movie starring Jake Gyllenhaal and the precocious Heath Ledger as Jack and Ennis, respectively. The 2005 movie received 8 Oscar nominations, winning three.
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Gyllenhaal has antecedently spoken about his relationship with Ledger—who died of an accidental overdose of prescription medications successful 2008—and what appearing in the movie meant to them.
"The narration I deliberation betwixt maine and Heath erstwhile we were making this movie was thing that was based connected a profound emotion for a batch of radical that we knew and were raised by successful our lives," helium said successful an April 2022 video for Vanity Fair, "and a heavy respect for their emotion and their relationship."
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