Christopher Evan Welch

 

Always wonderful to stumble across a performance by the truly great Christopher Evan Welch, gone much too soon! Fascinating in every moment! We are blessed to have some wonderful, quiet, thought-filled performances on television and in film. The luck of those who saw him onstage... A Hamlet in Boulder. An astonishing Kaspar in Handke's play. His work with Bill Irwin! Mitch in Ivo Van Hove's Streetcar. Mercutio in Central Park.

And imagining the roles denied us by his death! Clov in Endgame. Henry Carr in Travesties. Astrov in Uncle Vanya. Nick in Virginia Woolf. To see him in A Moon for the Misbegotten or as Hickey in The Iceman Cometh!  After the Fall. The Homecoming. Krapp's Last Tape. True West. He'd have been an amazing Raskolnikov! Mamet. Lear's fool. Tesman. Arturo Ui...




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