Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge come to the Hudson Theatre on Broadway July 26th through September 29th.
Meet Alex, a photographer on a holiday with his family in the south of France. Meet Abe, a music producer with a baby on the way. Two men - both fathers, husbands, and sons - take us on a journey you will never forget.
The finest actors of their generation, Academy Award nominee Jake Gyllenhaal (Sunday In The Park With George) and Tony Award nominee Tom Sturridge (1984), had audiences roaring to their feet at the sold-out engagement at The Public Theater. Now Sea Wall/A Life, from the visionary creative team behind The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Constellations and A Doll's House, comes to Broadway.
'I thought it was a gradual slope,' Alex explains, while describing his first scuba diving experience, unprepared for the sight of how the ocean's floor just suddenly drops down hundreds of feet. That sudden, terrifying shift is an apt bit of symbolism for the first of two extraordinarily touching and achingly human monologues that comprise Sea Wall / A Life, a beautifully acted double-bill directed with delicate sensitivity by Carrie Cracknell.
The hallmark of a truly inspired stage actor may not be what he or she does with outstanding material, but what they can accomplish with the run-of-the-mill stuff. By that measure, a sustained ovation is due Jake Gyllenhaal for his yeoman work in 'Sea Wall/A Life,' a pair of rather humdrum monologues by British playwrights Simon Stephens and Nick Payne that made it to Broadway - chiefly, it appears, because the popular Gyllenhaal is in one of them.
2019 | Broadway |
Original Broadway Production Broadway |
Year | Ceremony | Category | Nominee |
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2020 | Drama League Awards | Distinguished Performance Award | Tom Sturridge |
2020 | Drama League Awards | Distinguished Performance Award | Jake Gyllenhaal |
2020 | Drama League Awards | Outstanding Production of a Play | Sea Wall/A Life |
2020 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play | Jake Gyllenhaal |
2020 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play | Tom Sturridge |
2020 | Tony Awards | Best Play | Simon Stephens |
2020 | Tony Awards | Best Sound Design of a Play | Daniel Kluger |
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