The next generation to frasier have dived into multiple reality narratives.
Play constellations and movie sliding doors.
Constellations nick payne s gorgeous two character drama starring a perfectly matched jake gyllenhaal and ruth wilson may be the most sophisticated date play broadway has seen as staged by.
In one reality helen catches the tube train meets james and arrives home to find her loathsome lothario lover gerry cheating on her with his ex girlfriend.
Gwyneth paltrow plays london publicist helen effortlessly sliding between parallel storylines that show what happens if she does or does not catch a morning train back to her apartment.
The 1998 movie sliding doors turns on timing imagining how a woman s life would play out if she does or doesn t catch a train.
We see it both ways in parallel.
Before the doors close james tells helen to cheer up and repeats his line you know what the monty python boys say helen who in the.
From groundhog day to sliding doors and run lola run.
She is returning home when an amazing thing happens time reverses itself for a few seconds and a second version of herself is created.
Nick payne s play constellations which premiered in.
That s the quick take on constellations a romantic two hander starring dreamy jake gyllenhaal and the radiant british thesp ruth wilson fresh off her.
For originality the play struggles.
Constellations isn t the first drama to play around with the notion of narrative spinning.
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Arriving at work one morning helen discovers that she had been unjustifiably sacked from her pr job.
A london woman s love life and career both hinge unknown to her on whether or not she catches a train.
Directed by peter howitt.
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Movies from sliding doors to groundhog day and tv series from star trek.
Given the mode of storytelling it also lacks the kind of inevitability.
Short and sweet and strangely haunting.
Sliding doors 1998 plot.
Variations on a theme of variations on a theme.