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a14 people & arts
Monday 19 october 2020
Stephen King's thriller 'Mr. Mercedes' gets another chance

By MARK KENNEDY "My intention was always stood in for Ohio. English
AP Entertainment Writer to do a character driv- actor Treadway, who has
NEW YORK (AP) — One of en, scary show about the played a genius psycho-
Stephen King's most creepy monster inside these peo- path in "Penny Dreadful,"
and tense stories was hid- ple instead of the mon- takes on the serial killer in
ing in plain sight. ster outside the people," "Mr. Mercedes" and calls
"Mr. Mercedes" started life says Bender. "Even though him "a unique, brilliantly
in 2017 as a broadcast of- they're monstrous people drawn, complicated char-
fering on the AT&T-owned, doing monstrous things, acter." He calls the story
DirecTV-exclusive Audi- they are not, quote-un- "electric."
ence Network, only to be quote, boogeyman mon- Treadway says one of his
left marooned with an sters." most powerful memories is
uncertain future after the The first two seasons of "Mr. watching King's "The Shin-
obscure channel was shut Mercedes" will be binge- ing" with Jack Nicholson
down. The crime series gets able on Peacock starting and called King's trilogy
another life this month after on Oct. 15. The show's most "such a page-turner. I just
NBC's Peacock streaming recent outing, 2019's Sea- binged it and, in a dark
service acquired it. This image released by Peacock shows, from left, Breeda Wool, son 3, will arrive on a date way, just fell in love with the
"Nobody could find it. And Harry Treadaway, Kelly Lynch, Mary-Louise Parker, Brendan to be announced. character and the world."
that was enormously frus- Gleeson, Holland Taylor, Jharrel Jerome and Justine Lupe from In addition to Gleeson, the His serial killer is tightly
trating," says director Jack the series "Mr. Mercedes," based on a Stephen King trilogy. cast includes Harry Tread- wound, vindictive, awk-
Bender. "Hopefully it's go- Associated Press away, Kelly Lynch, Jharrel ward, clever, a victim of
ing to get the audience it's son — is based on Stephen serial killer who announces Jerome, Mary-Louise Park- abuse, a loner and filled
always deserved." King's bestselling Bill Hodges himself by mowing down er, Holland Taylor, Breeda with rage. "As an actor,
The pitch-dark series — trilogy and follows a retired, dozens of people in line for Wool and Nancy Travis. The my part of the process was
adapted by David E. Kelley ornery detective torment- a job fair in a stolen Mer- series was filmed in Charles- definitely not to judge him.
and starring Brendan Glee- ed by a seriously troubled cedes. ton, South Carolina, which It was to understand him
and get into the skin of him."
Romania’s Jewish State Theater While faithful to the books,

explores work on Holocaust Kelley and Bender inserted
their own ideas to the ad-
aptation. Kelley added a
Maia Morgenstern, head genstern said. She stressed next-door neighbor to the
of the Jewish State Theater the importance of evoking detective (played by Tay-
and a Romanian Jewish events through theatrical lor) and Bender gave him
actress best known for play- performance “in order to an extensive vinyl record
ing Mary in Mel Gibson’s understand the ghosts of a collection and a tortoise to
2004 movie “The Passion of painful past, the memories look after.
the Christ,” described the of terrible events that have The pet was inspired by a
play’s staging to The Asso- split the world into execu- tortoise that Bender's own
ciated Press as an “all-fe- tioners and victims.” daughter — Hannah Bend-
male project.” The director Actresses wear the striped er, the show's costume de-
is a woman, Liana Ceter- outfits of concentration signer — got when she was
chi. camps against a backdrop a child and the records
“Each one of us is a facet of images depicting camp give the series a quirky
Portraits of Auschwitz death camp prisoners are displayed on a of Ana Novac’s soul and entrances, gas chambers soundscape, from Dono-
mesh as actresses of the Jewish State Theatre, perform during memory,” Morgenstern and empty sleeping quar- van, Reagan Youth, Leon-
the premiere of the “The Beautiful Days of My Youth” play, based said. ters. Photographs and ard Cohen and Radio-
on the diary of Romanian Jewish Holocaust survivor Ana Novac, The play’s author, born names of Holocaust victims head to The Drifters, T-Bone
in Bucharest, Friday, Oct. 16, 2020. Burnett and Juice Newton.
Associated Press Zimra Harsanyi, hails from scroll in a video over the
Romania’s northern Tran- stage and performers. Hu- "I wanted the music to
By VADIM GHIRDA and and Roma began in 1941. sylvania region. She was man bones and a skull are come from the characters
EDITH BALAZS Some 280,000 Jews and deported at age 14. The held by performers during in 'Mr. Mercedes' because
Associated Press 11,000 Roma were deport- diary she kept inside a Nazi monologues. I really don't love just put-
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) ed and killed under Roma- concentration camp was The pandemic has had a ting the record on and let-
— The latest premiere at nia’s pro-Nazi regime dur- first published in Hungary severe impact on Roma- ting it be emotional or cool
the Jewish State Theater in ing World War II. During the in 1966 and later translated nia’s artistic community, over a montage," says
the Romanian capital, Bu- communist era, hundreds into several languages, but triggering the closure of Bender.q
charest, explores the hor- of thousands of Romanian it only hit bookshelves in her theaters during the lock-
rors of the Holocaust via a Jews emigrated to Israel. home country in 2004. down. Later, theaters were Solution Sudoku
survivor’s memories of the The current Jewish popula- Many liken Novac’s work to allowed to hold perfor-
Auschwitz and Plaszow tion is around 6,000, down that of Anne Frank, author mances only outdoors,
concentration camps. from 800,000 before the of the “The Diary of a Young then indoors with a limited
Friday’s debut of “The war. Girl,” which documented number of spectators.
Beautiful Days of My Youth” The play premiered online her life in hiding in Nazi-oc- “These are existential and
by Romanian Jewish Holo- and in front of spectators cupied Netherlands before also moral questions. What
caust survivor Ana Novac who took up less than a she was deported to con- to do to protect life, not
follows the National Holo- third of the seats because centration camps. to be a threat but at the
caust Remembrance Day of measures meant to slow “We are bearers of scars same time continue our
commemorations on Oct. the coronavirus pandemic from wounds that are not existence and activity and
9, the day when deporta- in the eastern European directly ours, but still we maintain our status as art-
tions of Romania’s Jews nation. carry these scars,” Mor- ists?” Morgenstern said. q Puzzle on Page 13