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Ralph Fiennes Stars in COVID-19 Monologue ‘Beat the Devil’ in Socially Distanced Staging: Theater Review

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David Benedict We have been here before. Almost. In 1998, playwright David Hare turned a research trip to Israel and Palestine into the 90-minute monologue “Via Dolorosa,” which he performed himself.

His return to the monologue form is, in every way, down to the ravages of COVID-19. Not only is a cast of interacting actors impossible on an indoor stage at the moment, the virus is also the subject matter of “Beat the Devil,” and Hare himself its subject.Because Hare is still on the long road to recovery from the virus, this time he is not performing.

In director Nicholas Hytner’s typically scrupulous production at the Bridge Theatre, the 900-seat venue built and run by Hytner and Nick Starr that opened three years ago.

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