Jake Gyllenhaal in Sea Wall/A Life is not your average story of an A-lister going to Broadway
is intimate and character-free, playing a man facing the parallels between the death of his father and the birth of his newborn child .who worked with both Gyllenhaal and“We talk a lot about the moment to moment, and I think what we constructed was a set of shared aims about the aesthetic of performance and the fact that we wanted it to feel very naturalistic.”—as a sort of “mania,” a period of exploring, reimagining, and playing, despite the grim subject matter. .
“His dog was a really big feature—we even talked about his dog being in the show and maybe coming onstage,” Cracknell says. “Leo just brought this kind of amazing warmth and energy to all of us when he was in the rehearsal room.”both saw the process as a contrast to the fast pace of a film shoot.
And there’s a liberation in the production’s efforts to be “radically conversational” and break the fourth wall repeatedly throughout each performance. “We try to really get rid of that skin that you normally have between the actor and the audience,” Cracknell says. “They often respond to the audience. If someone is coughing, once Jake went off and got her water and came back with it. Or if a phone goes off, they might say, ‘Don’t worry, it’s okay.
Cracknell says that effort to connect has had some immediate effects on the audience. “The plays [are] a reminder to live in the present moment because you never know what’s going to change, and I think reflecting on birth and on grief and on transformation, it kind of makes you want to be more vivid in your living and more well-connected to the people around you,” she says. “I love it when I watch people come out of the theater and phone family and friends.
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