Résumés(1)
On a cold September morning in 1844 a young man from Bavaria stands on a New York dockside. Dreaming of a new life in the new world. He is joined by his two brothers and an American epic begins. (National Theatre Live)
Critiques (1)
The Lehman Trilogy is an absolutely phenomenal play in which three actors on one stage manage, over the course of just a few hours, to impersonate dozens of figures and raconteurs from several generations and centuries in the history of America and its economy. Not only all of those who salivate over opulent yet, at their core, actually just literal and straightforward cinematic epics, including those by masters such as Martin Scorsese and Sergio Leone, should watch this in order to understand how a certain segment of history can be covered more imaginatively and, surprisingly, more playfully, entertainingly and engagingly in the same runtime. The Lehman Trilogy shows us that theatre remains a distinct form of art with its own means of expression, which other dramatic arts can borrow, but cannot replace.
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