There are some actors who, as the saying goes, you could watch read the phonebook.
And Lichtscheidl proves an excellent straight man, the sturdy rhythmic bass line to Rylances loopy melody.
The waters get muddied when other random characters float in.
Credit: Teddy Wolff
They simply seem unnecessary particularly since Rylance and Lichtscheidl prove such a perfect, almost vaudevillian pairing.
Nowhere is this more evident than the closing sequence, set to Jenkins poem The Afterlife.
I didnt get it.
It didnt seem to have any plot.
It seems like things just kept coming at me.
Its not much for character development.
Then a whole lot of new characters came along, and I couldnt tell who was who.
And suddenly we begin to see why Rylance is so enamored with Jenkins work.B
