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| | | 'It's offensive in the best possible way': Eric Underwood on his leap into acting with Clybourne Park | | by Lyndsey Winship Mar 1, 2022 | | The former Royal Ballet dancer and model is set to make his theatrical debut in Bruce Norris’s knotty, Pulitzer prize-winning play. He explains how he found his voice on and off stage Twenty-four years ago Eric Underwood went to an acting audition at a performing arts school in Washington DC. He panicked, froze and forgot his monologue. It seemed like his career was over before it began. But now 38, Underwood has finally got his first role in a play, Bruce Norris’s Pulitzer prize-winning Clybourne Park, tackling knotty conversations about race and gentrification. Underwood, however, has had plenty of stage time in between. On the way out of that first audition, he saw some girls getting ready for a dance tryout and, desperate not to let down his mum, asked to have a go. The school recognised his raw talent and a ballet career followed, culminating in 11 years at the Royal Ballet in London, for this charismatic, shapeshifting dancer. Continue reading... | | | | | The Incarnation review – haunted-house horror with a property-greed edge | | by Leslie Felperin Mar 1, 2022 | | An affluent young couple awaken a vengeful spirit in a by-the-numbers chiller conceived under pandemic conditions Some day there will be PhD theses written on the strange anomie of films shot during the pandemic, written so everything basically happens in one house using just a handful of actors. There have already been scads of low-budget horror films in this mode which have trickled out over the last few months, and some are quite interesting and inventive. This one, not so much. A good-looking young couple, Brad (Taye Diggs) and Jess (Jessica Uberuaga), have just bought a house somewhere in the hills above California’s San Fernando Valley. Seen often via drone footage, it is an oddly constructed abode that looks like a cross between geodesic dome and an egg incubator. Meanwhile, the camera spends a lot of time roaming the building’s corridors and empty rooms, like we’re watching an estate agent’s VR tour. That sort of fits given Brad and Jess are small-time developers who buy places like this in order to flip them for profit. Continue reading... | | | | | |
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