Primo - Primo Levi, Antony Sher
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Actor: Antony SherDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 110 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-07-26
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Kultur Video
Movie Reviews of Primo - Primo Levi, Antony Sher
Movie Review: Spellbinding
Summary: 5 Stars
I cannot think of an adjective to convey my feelings about this. I cannot call it enjoyable because the subject matter is far from that. It is, however, one of the best 1-man shows that I have ever seen. Antony Sher's performance was riveting. Without emotion he stands as a witness to the horrors that he, and others, endured. His descriptions of events are objective and detailed. The staging, use of a basically bare stage and very effective lighting, was exceptional! I saw it on Public TV and went on-line to order it the same night. Excellent production!
Summary of Primo - Primo Levi, Antony Sher
Primo Levi, Italian-Jewish writer and chemist, first gained fame with his autobiographical story SE QUESTO? UN UOMO (1947, If This is a Man) of survival in Nazi concentration camps. For the last forty yearsof his life Levi devoted himself to attempting to deal with the fact that he was not killed in Auschwitz "The worst survived, that is, the fittest; the best all died," he said. Levi also published poetry, science fiction, essays, and short stories. In 1987, at the age of 67, he killed himself. Italo Calvino called Levi"one of the most important and gifted writers of our time." When PRIMO opened in September 2004 it was instantly recognised as a major theatrical event; every performance was sold out. A work of astounding dramatic power, it brings to life Primo Levi's great testament to his year in Auschwitz. Antony Sher's towering performance is as controlled as Primo Levi's own lucid prose. Beautifully directed by Richard Wilson and presented in Hildegard Bechtler's magnificent, symbolist set, this is quite simply masterpiece theatre."At the end of this remarkable performance there was a silence unlike any other I have experienced in a theatre. Sher captures Levi's unsparing depiction of his fellow inmates...with a tentative almost unbearable beauty." Daily Telegraph. "The presentation, from Antony Sher's self-effacing performance to Hildegard Bechtler's grey-walled design, shows it is possible for theatre to match the un-rhetorical honesty of one of the 20th Century's great books." The Guardian. "This is acting of the purest kind, unadorned by self-pity or visible virtuosity. This is theatre at its most human, most moral and least indoctrinating. Richard Wilson's direction has the clarity and humility of great directors: Primo seems simply to happen, like an eclipse or an earthquake." Sunday Times.Drama DVD Video
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