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PEOPLE & ARTS Tuesday 27 March 2018
Review: 'The Report: Level of fentanyl in

Balcony' is riveting Prince was exceedingly high

debut fiction By AMY FORLITI

Associated Press
By KENDAL WEAVER MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A
A limestone manor, sur- toxicology report from
rounded by fields and for- Prince's autopsy, obtained
ests not far from Paris, is Monday by The Associated
the main setting for "The Press, shows he had what
Balcony," a subtly crafted multiple experts called an
and richly rewarding de- "exceedingly high" con-
but book of fiction by Jane centration of fentanyl in his
Delury. With a servants' cot- body when he died.
tage tucked nearby, the Prince was 57 when he
once-grand estate emerg- was found alone and un-
es as a central presence responsive in an elevator
in the narrative, looming at his Paisley Park estate on
large in the passions and April 21, 2016. Public data
destinies of a changing released six weeks after his In this Feb. 4, 2007 file photo, Prince performs during the half-
cast of characters that death showed he died of time show at the Super Bowl XLI football game at Dolphin Sta-
own it or visit it over a cen- an accidental overdose of dium in Miami.
tury. Delury's book unfolds This cover image released by fentanyl, a synthetic opi- Associated Press
Little, Brown and Company
in 10 separate stories, each shows "The Balcony," by Jane oid 50 times more powerful
with its own title. While they Delury. than heroin. blood is exceedingly high, centration of fentanyl in
work as compact, remark- Associated Press A confidential toxicology even for somebody who is Prince's blood was 67.8 mi-
able tales in themselves, report obtained by the AP a chronic pain patient on crograms per liter. The re-
they connect through reminiscent of "Olive Kitter- provides some insight into fentanyl patches," said Dr. port explains that fatalities
characters and events idge," Elizabeth Strout's Pu- just how much fentanyl Lewis Nelson, chairman of have been documented
— and the manor and its litzer Prize-winning book of was in his system. Experts emergency medicine at in people with blood levels
environs — to create a stories built around the title who are not connected Rutgers New Jersey Medi- ranging from three to 58
riveting free-form novel. character. A possible flaw to the Prince investigation cal School. He called the micrograms per liter.
This narrative structure — is Delury’s change of stylis- said the numbers leave no fentanyl concentrations "a Experts say there is no "le-
stand-alone stories woven tic gears in the final story, doubt that fentanyl killed pretty clear smoking gun." thal level" at which fentanyl
around a central figure — is “Between.”q him. "The amount in his The report says the con- can kill.q

Andrew Garfield on why 'Angels in America' still resonates

By JOHN CARUCC who are being forced to it's all been pretty terrible.
NEW YORK (AP) — A bitter fight for simply being alive." This is indescribably worse
optimism is felt at the end He added: "Thank God than anything we've had
of the marathon, two-part they are doing what they before, so maybe this is the
AIDS play "Angels in Amer- are doing, and we need to moment when the play will
ica" and one of its stars, An- stand with them and follow really hit big," Kushner said.
drew Garfield, shares some them and help them lead." The play also stars Nathan
of that hope, especially The former Spider-Man Lane, Lee Pace, Denise
with so many young people actor, who has been on Gough, and Nathan Stew-
in the #NeverAgain move- Broadway before in "Death art-Jarrett. It is directed by
ment demanding gun law of a Salesman," has trans- Tony- and Olivier-winner
changes and begging not ferred Tony Kushner's sev- Marianne Elliott.
to be cut down by bullets. en-hour masterpiece from Garfield said Kushner's
Garfield said the Pulitzer London to Broadway. "An- dogged optimism for a bro-
Prize- and Tony Award- gels in America" dramatizes ken-down world and crav-
winning work resonates as the early days of the AIDS ing for life itself makes his
much today as it did when crisis in 1980s and the ef- words so appealing in 2018.
it first premiered more than fects of Reaganism. "It does feel like we are
25 years ago, citing Satur- In his final monologue, Gar- dreaming of a better fu-
day's March for Our Lives field's character says: "The ture. I think that is what Tony
in Washington, D.C., and dead will be commemo- is trying to do with the play.
around the country. rated. And we'll struggle on Nathan Lane, from left, Andrew Garfield and James McArdle He's giving us a very accu-
"These incredibly inspiring, with the living. And we are participate in the curtain call for the "Angels in America" Broad- rate depiction of the hell
way revival opening night at the Neil Simon Theatre on Sunday,
beautiful young people or- not going away. We won't March 25, 2018, in New York. we are in, and then he is
ganized the March for Our die secret deaths anymore. Associated Press giving us a way out, which
Lives," he said Sunday at an The world only spins for- is through community, em-
opening night party. "You ward." trations. But he said Sunday bad Republican adminis- pathy, remembering about
have teenagers who are Kushner has said that all the current Donald Trump trations. I would argue that, the sacredness of life — all
wiser than the elders of our his plays, and this one in administration is like none with the possible excep- life — and the mystery of
population, teenagers who particular, seem to thrive that he has ever seen. tion of some parts of the longing for more life," Gar-
are wiser and smarter and under Republican adminis- "There have been many Eisenhower administration, field said.q