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PEOPLE & ARTS Tuesday 9 april 2019
'Come From Away,' 'The Inheritance' score at Olivier Awards

By JILL LAWLESS the southeast Asian nation
Associated Press of Brunei. The country's sul-
LONDON (AP) — "The In- tan owns properties around
heritance", an epic drama the world. includes Lon-
about gay lives in New don's Dorchester Hotel.
York, and musicals "Come Spanish-British actress Pat-
From Away" and "Com- sy Ferran was crowned
pany" were the big winners best actress in a play as
at British theater's Olivier a woman consumed by
Awards on Sunday, receiv- love in Tennessee Williams'
ing four trophies apiece. smoldering "Summer and
"Come From Away," in- Smoke." The competition
spired by a small Canadian was a talented field that in-
town that sheltered thou- cluded Gillian Anderson for
sands of stranded airline "All About Eve" and Sophie
passengers after the 9/11 Okonedo for "Antony and
attacks, was named best Cleopatra"
new musical at Britain's "Summer and Smoke" also
equivalent of Broadway's took the prize for best re-
Tony Awards. The play also vival.
took trophies for sound, Sharon D. Clarke was
outstanding achievement named best actress in a
in music and choreogra- musical for her powerful
phy. Actor Tom Hiddleston, from left, actors Zawe Ashton, Patsy Ferran and Charlie Cox pose for pho- performance as the maid
Choreographer Kelly tographers backstage at the Olivier Awards in London, Sunday, April 7, 2019. to a Southern U.S. family in
Devine dedicated the Associated Press the 1960s in Tony Kushner's
award in her category to "Caroline, or Change."
the people of Gander, but absolutely vital." Vic Theatre. capital. "Even some of the Best actor in a musical went
Newfoundland who in real "Company" also delivered "We've seen a lot of Brits New York jokes, they got." to Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
life "effortlessly showed the a supporting actress prize come over and take home "The Inheritance" also took for playing a charismatic,
world how easy it is to be to Broadway diva Patti Lu- Tonys," Lopez said back- prizes for lighting and for abusive Ike Turner in "Tina -
kind." Pone and a supporting ac- stage, clutching a statu- Stephen Daldry's direction, The Tina Turner Musical."
The award for best musical tor trophy to Jonathan Bai- ette topped with a bust of while star Kyle Soller beat Founded in 1976, the Olivier
revival went to a produc- ley. It took another award the late actor for whom the rivals who included Ian Awards honor achieve-
tion of Stephen Sondheim's for set-design. award is named, Laurence McKellen to be garlanded ments in London theater,
"Company" that gender- "The Inheritance," Mat- Olivier. "It's only fair." best actor in a play. musicals, dance and op-
swapped the lead role of a thew Lopez's drama about Lopez said he was hope- Soller, an American based era. Winners in most cat-
commitment-shy New York young gay men living in ful the show would get a in London, dedicated his egories are chosen by a
singleton and turned the New York a generation af- Broadway run now that award to "those who con- panel of stage profession-
usually male Bobby char- ter the AIDS crisis was de- London has shown the tinue to fight in a world als and theatergoers.
acter into Bobbie. clared best new play. play, mined from his own where you can still be Sally Field, Kelsey Gram-
Director Marianne Elliott at- Lopez said he was "over- experience, resonates with stoned to death for loving mer, Tom Hiddleston, David
tributed the show's success whelmed and overjoyed" audiences. "You could who you love." Suchet and Gloria Estefan
partly to "a wind of change by the trans-Atlantic suc- have blown me over with Islamic Laws making gay were among the stars walk-
blowing in the industry, cess of his seven-hour epic, a feather," he said of the sex and adultery punish- ing the red carpet in a driz-
where celebrating female which had its world pre- reaction his play got from able by death by stoning zle before the ceremony at
stories is not only possible, miere at London's Young theatergoers in Britain's took effect Wednesday in the Royal Albert Hall.q

T.C. Boyle spins a family drama from the LSD era

By ROB MERRILL Joanie to attend one of historical references may clothes that had shrunk in
Associated Press Dr. Leary's "sessions" at his intrigue some readers and the dryer and had to be
"Outside Looking In" (Ecco), home. Before they know thankfully there's Google pinched and tugged till it
by T.C. Boyle it they're swallowing a for that. But the heart of the stretched back out again,"
Just as he did in his last nov- "beginner's dose" (20 mil- story is the Loney family. As writes Boyle after Fitz comes
el about scientists inhab- ligrams) of psilocybin, a their drug dependencies down from a week-long trip
iting Arizona's Biosphere precursor to LSD. And be- deepen, husband and wife sequestered with a teen-
2 in the 1990's ("The Ter- fore they know that, they're move in opposite directions age girl in a Millbrook cot-
ranauts"), T.C. Boyle's latest having the best sex of their — Fitz starts being con- tage.
takes a real-world event — lives and apologizing to the vinced that Leary is on the Boyle doesn't pass judg-
Harvard psychologist Timo- babysitter for being so late. cutting edge of science, ment on behaviors that
thy Leary's LSD experiments The story moves fast from while Joanie appreciates more than half a century
in the 1960's — and imag- there. From Newton, Mas- the intimacy LSD creates later seem downright crimi-
ines some of the people sachusetts, to Zihuatane- after 13 years of marriage. nal. Corey takes his first trip
who went along for the trip. jo, Mexico, and finally to Three-hundred pages later, — all the kids at the Mill-
Meet the Loneys: Grad Millbrook, New York, the nothing is what it was and brook estate do — before
student Fitzhugh, his wife, Loneys immerse themselves Boyle's writing doesn't pro- he's old enough to even
Joanie, and their son, Co- in Leary's communes, alter- vide much hope for the drive, and needless to say This cover image released by
rey. Seeking to ingratiate ing their minds regularly and family's future. middle school looks much Ecco shows "Outside Looking
himself in Harvard's psych testing the limits of what it "Nothing quite fit right, as less attractive when not In," a novel by T.C. Boyle.
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department, Fitz convinces means to be a family. The if the world were a suit of high.q