Captivating performances by the cast — most notably, a brilliant turn by Adam LeFevre, as a local peacemaker — more than compensate for the play's few minor missteps in logic, especially the pat final few minutes.
Expect more of the same from this show, which stars Dogme 95 alumni Lie Kaas, known for Susanne Bier's Brothers, and, most notably, Bo Larsen, brilliant in the lead role of Thomas Vinterberg's iconic family drama Festen.
They said yes to Mendes for sound reason: Neal Street Productions, his company with Caro Newling and Pippa Harris, has staged some of the best musicals of the past decade – most notably the brilliant revival of Sunday in the Park with George.
Born in 1954, the British Ms. Weir not only possesses a strikingly distinctive compositional voice, she has shown an arresting flair for drama in three unconventional operas: notably, the brilliant "A Night at the Chinese Opera," of 1987.
A group of these vintage images anchors "Lisette Model and Her Successors," at the Aperture gallery, an exhibition of some hundred and fifty pictures that highlights the photographer's influence on her peers (notably the brilliant and far nervier Leon Levinstein), as well as her impact as a teacher at the New School, beginning in 1951.
There have been a few raised eyebrows at the exclusion of some high-profile names, notably the brilliant Donna Tartt and the likes of Martin Amis, but it's even more jarring that of the 13, there are barely any writers of colour – in fact only Indian British author Neel Mukherjee makes the cut with his novel, The Lives of Others.
They have lost a couple of key figures, notably the brilliant full-back Anthony Milford, who was named in Australia's training squad for the Four Nations, and their World Cup captain, Sia Soliola, who is taking a break after signing off from St Helens with a Grand Final triumph before joining Canberra Raiders next year.
There was the beginning of a literature, most notably Michael Herr's brilliant "Dispatches," David Rabe's Off-Broadway staging of "The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel," Ronald Glasser's "365 Days".
Woodward was notably successful – indeed, brilliant – at professionalising England's approach to international rugby, browbeating the double gin brigade at Twickenham into spending proper money on the shop window team.
Piggott had ridden many times for the Duke, notably on the brilliant mare Park Top, on whom he was narrowly beaten in the 1967 Arc de Triomphe (and still blames himself for her defeat).
