Opening in Toronto and playing a very strict limited engagement of only 30 performances is the eagerly anticipated Barrymore starring the colourful Christopher Plummer.
Show Description:
Christopher Plummer’s Tony Award-winning tour de force is an unforgettable portrayal of legendary actor, John Barrymore, a man of colossal talent and contradictions, and one of the greatest Shakespearean actors of all time. Set in 1942, the final year of John Barrymore’s life, BARRYMORE takes place on the stage of a Broadway theatre, where the actor is struggling to recreate his performance in the title role of Shakespeare’s Richard III.
With coruscating wit, humour, irreverence and poignancy, playwright William Luce—the acclaimed author of The Belle of Amherst, about poet Emily Dickinson—shows us the many facets of this complicated man: the actor who dazzled London with his portrayal of Hamlet… the young Barrymore and his relationship with his loving grandmother, herself a famous actress… his alcoholic father, and his siblings, Lionel and Ethel… his four disastrous marriages… the Hollywood success he disdained… and his own all-consuming battle with booze which soon claimed his life. (The Group Tix Company)
Barrymore
Written by William Luce
Directed by Gene Saks
Starring Christopher Plummer
At the Elgin Theatre in Toronto
Runs until March 9.
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