'Brokeback Mountain' Heads To The London Stage With Mike Faist And Lucas Hedges

The play's director says the new version is"not a love story" but, rather, a tale about"fear" set between two Wyoming cowboys.LONDON — “Brokeback Mountain” was a star-making story onscreen. It may turn out to be the same onstage.

A new stage version at London’s Soho Place theater, stars Hedges as taciturn ranch hand Ennis Del Mar and Faist as livewire cowboy Jack Twist, who fall passionately in love during a 1960s summer on an isolated mountainside. Mike Faist and Lucas Hedges star in the stage adaptation of"Brokeback Mountain," now running in London.“It’s because he sees those qualities in us,” he said. “I think all of us in general have both of them. We’re all Ennises and we’re all Jacks, in our way. So the duality exists within all of us and part of our job is to just find those parts and bring them to the surface and make them the most accessible as possible.

Hedges said the director had compared the show to the last production to run at Soho Place, Euripides’ Greek tragedy “Medea.”“Of course it’s not ancient Greek theater, but there’s something deeply fundamental about it, about these two characters, about the way in which they need each other and can’t ultimately be together,” Hedges said. “There is something classic about the dynamic, and the stakes.

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