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As Lucky, Saudek is scarily good. Oppression and cruelty have sucked the life out of the character, but when ordered to dance and “think,” he is able to summon the remaining vestiges of physical and intellectual presence. Saudek’s slow-build then unstoppable first-act monologue is a coup de théâtre.
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Whereas Billy Crudup’s Lucky in the McKellen-Stewart production was technically accomplished but not especially memorable, Richard Saudek offers here a masterful interpretation of this difficult role. It requires him to mainly stand around endlessly, bent over like an old, beaten dray horse, and then to deliver at top speed one of the most difficult, opaque speeches in the dramatic repertoire.
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Saudek excels as Lucky, delivering the protracted stream-of-consciousness monologue in a breathless fury that sounds sensational in Yiddish.
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Lucky is brilliantly played by Richard Saudek. He is astonishing when he performs his marathon monologue that combines philosophy, nonsense syllables and contemporary references.
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