I’ve finally put together some photos of Mark Rylance and company in West End’s 2007 revival of Boeing-Boeing, which was a huge hit. The play ran at Comedy Theatre (on February 2007) in London before transferring to Broadway in New York City in 2008. The play won many praises by critics and audiences alike. It should also be noted that Rylance won the 2008 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for the 2008 Broadway transfer of Boeing-Boeing.
Theatre critic Michael Billington wrote of Rylance’s performance:
The plum part is that of Robert, whom Mark Rylance invests with a Welsh accent and poll-scratching air of bemusement that reminds one of Stan Laurel at his best. Rylance, with his tenative gestures and secretive smiles, works in a different rhythm from everyone else ,as befits a rural visitor. But what he dazzlingly shows is how the outsider gets caught up in the wicked Parisian game. At one point Rylance, overcompensating for the compromising undergarments found in his bag, essays a macho toughness which leads him to point his fingers like pistols and kick open a door in the manner of John Wayne. It typifies a great farce performance in which innocence is corrupted by experience.
promotional poster for Boeing-Boeing
Comedy Theatre, where Boeing-Boeing was being played at. (source)
Tamzin Outhwaite, Frances de la Tour, Roger Allam, Michelle Gomez, Mark Rylance, and Daisy Beaumont
Rylance with Tamzin Outhwaite
Mark Rylance and Tamzin Outhwaite (Photograph: Tristram Kenton)
Roger Allam (Bernard), Mark Rylance (Robert) (Photograph: Tristram Kenton)
photo by Manuel Harlan
Rylance and Michelle Gomez
Rylance with Tamzin Outhwaite
Mark Rylance, Tamzin Outhwaite, and Roger Allam (source)
Roger Allam, Tamzin Outhwaite, and Mark Rylance
Daisy Beaumont, Roger Allam, and Mark Rylance.
photo by Joan Marcus
the cast takes bows at curtain call! (source)
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Daisy Beaumont, Mark Rylance, and Tamzin Outhwaite, celebrating the huge success of the play! at London’s Ruby Blue club (February 2007)
Rylance greets Haydn Gwynne at the post-show party
For reading information on Rylance in Boeing-Boeing, check out the article/interview, Praised and Confused and here’s another nice article/interview by an American newspaper.
