![]() ![]() ![]() Started in the 1930s but finished as World War II raged, Eliot’s last great work is obviously reflective of an England on the precipice, often given a religious framework. ![]() Or to be more precise, to our here-and-now consciousness still wrestling with who we are in the wake of a polarizing global crisis, still trying to reconcile where we’ve been with what the future holds. (Ralph had directed the stage version.) Unabashedly theatrical in presentation but broken up with interludes of nature, this “Four Quartets” is a multi-course feast of concentrated flavors: mesmerizing language, masterly invocation, and the kind of poetic imagery that in the hands of a great actor feels like a direct line from Eliot’s pen to our mind’s landscape. ![]() with his one-man stage adaptation in 2021, and shortly afterward committed his widely praised performance to film, directed by his sister Sophie Fiennes. Eliot’s “Four Quartets”: to transfer the entirety of the poet’s epic meditation on time and humanity - over a thousand lines - to his memory, and from there to theater audiences at the first opportunity.įiennes toured the U.K. Ralph Fiennes’ version befit a consummate actor who’d long cherished T.S. When it came to lockdown projects at the start of the pandemic, reassessing and reorganizing one’s possessions was a clear favorite. ![]()
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