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“Sometimes I feel like there’s a skin to the play that you’re directing,” says theater director Carrie Cracknell one morning over breakfast at her hotel in SoHo. “And you’re trying to get in, get your shoulder inside it; like inside the beast.”
Cracknell, who is 39, had directed a production of Stephens’ “A Doll’s House” and cowritten a few projects with the playwright; Sturridge had worked with Stephens several times before. Sturridge and Gyllenhaal had costarred in the Netflix film “Velvet Buzzsaw.
“There’s a lot of honesty and rawness and frailty, and I was really surprised to see pieces where men talk so openly about parenting,” says Cracknell. “Because one of the big battles for me as a woman with children and working is often people will ask me about my kids. They’ll be really surprised I have children in a way that never happens with my partner.”
The production attempts to break down the barriers to those stories by chipping away at the fourth wall. “We’ve been really interested from the beginning in this idea of we’re all together,” says Cracknell. Gyllenhaal might break character and hand you a tissue if you’re crying, and if you’re sitting close enough to stage, you might have to make room for him as he cuts across the row.
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