Topic: Neil Armfield

Exit the King

Elisabeth K?bler-Ross, with her five famous stages of grief, had nothing on Eug?ne Ionesco. In Exit the King, the playwright's absurdist 1962 comedy of mortality and solipsism, the dying King Berenger careens through dozens of behavioral way stations en ...
A mesmerizing Geoffrey Rush sparks the Broadway revival of Ionesco's 'Exit the King'We haven't seen a star turn like this in quite a while.Geoffrey Rush, making his Broadway debut, manages a mesmerizing high-wire act of balancing outrageous comedy ...

Heaven, Hell and heroin

When you can stop, you don't want to. When you want to, you can't," says Geoffrey Rush's gay heroin addict in Neil Armfield's often impressive Australian film. It also stars Heath Ledger and Abbie Cornish as young artists ...