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It received polarizing reviews by critics, but particular praise was directed toward the acting. The Whale stars Brendan Fraser as Charlie, Hong Chau as Liz, Sadie Sink as Ellie, and Ty Simpkins as Thomas. Aronofsky saw the play in 2012 and wanted to adapt it into a film, but he put the project on hold for years because he couldn't find the right actor to play Charlie.
Hunter wrote the screenplay for Darren Aronofsky's 2022 film adaptation of the same name. In terms of plot progression, a play director named Davis McCallum stated that the goal is to "turn up the pressure until it almost can't be tolerated" and then have a "really cathartic release at the end of the piece." Film adaptation This differed from the film version, where the character, portrayed by Hong Chau, is of Asian heritage. As of 2022, many of the actresses portraying Liz were white. The Liz character did not have her ethnic background or race specified in the original play. The play had its Chicago debut at the Victory Gardens Theater in 2013 with Dale Calandra as Charlie and Cheryl Graeff as Liz. In 2013, the play was produced at South Coast Repertory with Matthew Arkin as Charlie and Blake Lindsley as Liz. Shuler Hensley and Rebecca Henderson starred as Charlie and Liz, respectively. ĭavis McCallum oversaw the first off-broadway production in 2012 via Playwrights Horizons. The cast included Tom Alan Robbins as Charlie and Angela Reed as Liz. The play had its world premiere at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts performed by the resident theatre company as part of the Colorado New Play Summit. Īccording to Hunter, he made Elder Thomas a Mormon missionary as a way of "self-protection or distancing" so that he could "write about religion, but in a way that didn’t feel too close to home." Hunter stated that he used the Elder Thomas character as a "sort of unlikely connection to God." Staging Hunter stated that his reflections on teaching were the initial point of inspiration for The Whale, and that he did not add the obesity aspect until later, as a way of making the teacher have a "distance" from the audience and the other characters. It was given the 2011 Sky Cooper New American Play Prize at Marin Theatre Company in Mill Valley, California and was produced there in 2014. Production history Origins Ĭreated through PlayPenn, a new play development program based in Philadelphia, the play was workshopped at the Icicle Creek Theatre Festival in Leavenworth, Washington.
Ellie had received influences on her personality from Mary, according to Hodgins, and this is "glaringly obvious". Mary - Charlie's ex-wife, and Ellie's mother.
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Ellie has not seen or talked to her father in eight years, thanks to her mother's full custody, until she shows up one day at his apartment. Hodgins called her Charlie's "enabler" because she feeds him junk food despite his enormous weight and her own pleading with him to get better medical care.
According to Paul Hodgins of the Orange County Register, the play's author "wants us to get past our initial revulsion and see Charlie's size as a manifestation of his pain." He cannot stop eating, to the detriment of everyone around him, including his estranged daughter. The play tells the story of a 600-pound, obese man who hides from the world and stays in his apartment.
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