In between film projects, the Coen Brothers and Charlie Kaufman have teamed up for Carter Burwell’s Theater of the New Ear, a pair of radio plays recently performed at London’s Royal Festival Hall. The cast includes Steve Buscemi, John Goodman, Marcia Gay Harden, and Philip Seymour Hoffman for the Coen’s “Sawbones,” and Meryl Streep, Hope Davis, and Peter Dinklage (taking time off from Lassie, I presume) in Kaufman’s “Hope Leaves the Theater.” (These apparently were also performed in Brooklyn two weeks ago, but tickets were hard to come by.)
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Nice title. Could have used a “Being the” tagged on to it. Man… this sounded too good. I just envision Joel and Ethan behind the stage, nervously watching the stagehand ‘fishmongers’. I always thought a Kaufman/Coen collaboration would be nifty. Though, I thought somehow it might cause the apocalypse. I guess not. Though it sounds like there was little collaboration, just separate vignettes tied together under common music. (That’s just what I understand from the reviews) Its still a start. The new Coen films seem to be loosing their potency, so this could be a good thing.