Recensione:
I feel moved by the very existence of Lazarus, which feels like Bowie's final tour, final testament and last eccentric project all wrapped into one. It is not a valedictory romp through his greatest hits, but something rarer, more interesting and more frustrating: a last transmission from a dying star. --Time Out
Enda Walsh's book is full of longing - for love, for peace, for release from earthly ties - while songs from Bowie's iconic catalogue, an astonishing legacy spanning four decades, are reimagined in a new context whilst somehow retaining the potency they once exerted during the course of a life richly lived. No jukebox musical, this... [the] entire creation is infused with the spirit, the quirkiness, the capriciousness of Bowie, and Walsh could not be more in tune with all of it. --Arts Desk
Intriguing and nuanced... a fitting memorial to one of the giants of popular culture. --Gay Times
Pure passion and power... Bowie's belief in the power of the imagination and the mind to create and encompass new worlds comes to the fore. --whatsonstage.com
Complex, layered and riveting... Lazarus adds another mysterious chapter to a career that was full of infinite mystery... Blazingly original and disconcertingly weird, Lazarus is of a piece with its principal creator David Bowie's own artistic output. --The Stage
Decipher and absorb, decipher and absorb... Bowie did it his own way [but] playwright supreme Enda Walsh, it's clear, was the perfect choice for collaboration. Like Bowie's music, his plays revel in playful, poetic acts of suggestion. Individual lines make sense on their own terms, as Walsh's often hermetic characters devise and live by the internal logic of their own little worlds. But the whole is always something to be reckoned and wrestled with. --Exeunt magazine
A spectacular study of a pained outsider's search for peace... An exploration of the existential angst that pervades Bowie's music: this is the story of a man never wholly at ease in himself or his surroundings. It was also shrewd of Bowie to engage Walsh to write the book because, in plays such as Ballyturk and The Walworth Farce, the Irish dramatist has shown a hypnotised fascination with characters who create fantasy worlds to allay their solitude. --Guardian
Strange and ethereal, but oddly moving... Captivating, tense and emotional. Shows like this don't come along very often... The starman may have gone back to the sky. But we'll be forever glad he came to meet us. And, with this musical, he was right to think he might indeed blow our minds. At its heart, this is a deeply personal story. Of a man facing his own potential mortality and seeing not grievance, but instead a beauty in the bittersweet embrace of a release from a cruel and nonsensical humanity. One which he was never truly a part of. --Radio Times
Gripping... a strangely poetic piece of music theatre... Enda Walsh, collaborating closely all the way through with Bowie, brings his masterful sense of theatre to exquisitely crafted inter-linked and sometimes superimposed scenes that explore, in magnificently non-linear manner, a number of 'tableaux reanimes', where the characters collide, react, change and separate, suggesting rather than describing the arc of the story. Or, a number of stories. As many stories as there are songs... What does it all mean?... It is an immersion in What It Is To Be David Bowie When You're Not... There's nothing at all conventional about this. It is festive. Riotous. Dionysian. Wonderful. --British Theatre Guide
Like David Bowie himself, this is a show that defies definition. It's both all and none of a musical, a play, a gig, performance art, philosophical meditation, a fever dream, a collective trip into the unknown... strangely fascinating and fascinatingly strange. --Independent
Bowie's ghost is movingly present... the play feels part celebration, part wake; sorrow and death fug up the theatre like some sort of paranormal mist. --GQ Magazine
This bittersweet hometown swan song... A fitting testament... For Bowiephiles, Lazarus resonates with allusions to the man himself. --Hollywood Reporter
L'autore:
David Bowie released over thirty albums throughout his fifty years in the music industry, including The Man Who Sold the World, Space Oddity, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, Young Americans, Low and Heroes among others. His final album Blackstar was released to critical acclaim in January this year. Also an accomplished actor, Bowie appeared on Broadway in The Elephant Man, and can be seen in many films including The Last Temptation of Christ and Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence. In 1996, Bowie was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and in 1999, he became a Commandeur dans L Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
Enda Walsh is an award-winning Irish playwright. His plays include Ballyturk, Misterman, Penelope, The New Electric Ballroom, The Walworth Farce, The Small Things, Bedbound and Disco Pigs. He won a Tony Award in 2012 for writing the book for the musical Once. His work has been performed all over the world."
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