Theater Review: NiamhCusack and CatherineMcCormack star at London's NationalTheatre in a two-part stage adaptation of ElenaFerrante's Neapolitan novels, 'My Brilliant Friend'
Elsewhere, it's more of a struggle to distill the novels' quieter, more intellectual concerns, their engagement with the porous, contingent nature of identity, how people "make" one another and especially how men construct women. Conversely, a major theme is also how easy it is for people to dissolve into their surroundings and disappear, like salt in water.
The show is nothing if not ambitious, especially if one considers that it's attempting to bring to life a highly original, deeply modern epic that isn't quite like anything else. It's certainly not a well-worn fairy tale or much discussed literary classic that's already had its grooves worn down by lots of previous adaptations, the HBO series notwithstanding.
Best frenemies from a girlhood spent in Naples' slums immediately after the end of WWII, Lenu and Lila are the twin suns around which the narrative's entire solar system revolves. Although Lenu, given to soliloquies that explain what's going on and what she's feeling, is effectively the narrator and spends more time on stage, Lila's angry voice as a child, and later as a nihilistic adult, rings out just as clearly, and nearly as often, throughout.
At Lila's factory, strikes break out sometime around the late '60s, around the same time Lenu's marriage to staid professor and would-be patricarch Pietro falls apart. Years later, reconciled after rocky phases, the two women practically raise their two same-age daughters communally before tragedy sweeps one child away.
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