![]() ![]() “Maybe he’s at peace with this, maybe it’s the source of his agony.”īutterell’s “Brokeback Mountain” opened in previews May 10 at in London’s West End. The image “speaks to the bit of us that feels alone in the world,” Butterell said. ![]() When it came to evoking the story’s emotional landscape, the director had stuck one sepia-toned photograph, of a lone cowboy in a snow-covered Wyoming, behind a pillar. “The vastness has been there from the very beginning,” Butterell said in a recent interview. To help the cast connect with Proulx’s story of a cowboy and a ranch hand falling in love against the wide-stretching landscapes of 1960s Wyoming, black-and-white photographs of American plains and mountain ranges were tacked to the walls during rehearsals. Last month, in a central London rehearsal studio, Butterell and Ashley Robinson, who wrote the play, tried to answer that question. In 2016, when the theater director Jonathan Butterell was considering a proposal to adapt Annie Proulx’s 1997 short story “ Brokeback Mountain” for the stage, he wondered how to translate the prose’s vast landscape and insular emotions into a play. ![]()
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