It starred Heath Ledger as Ennis and Jake Gyllenhaal as Jack, along with Michelle Williams as Ennis’s wife Alma, and Anne Hathaway as Jack’s wife Lureen.Ĭritics widely praised the film, which later translated into commercial success too - a landmark moment for mainstream queer cinema.

In 2005, Proulx’s tale became a major Hollywood movie directed by Ang Lee. We follow their lives over the next 20 years as they have families and continue to see one another now and again, but never make the leap to being together full-time. The pair form a passionate bond, but both marry women and keep their love a secret. The tale focuses on two young workers - Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist - hired to look after the sheep at a seasonal grazing range on the fictional titular mountain in 1963. Her Pulitzer-nominated Wyoming short story collection (the first of three centred around the rural state) featured the acclaimed “Brokeback Mountain”, which was also published as a novella in The New Yorker and won the O Henry Prize. The latter was also adapted: it became a film starring Kevin Spacey, Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett, and Julianne Moore in 2001. However, it does feature several members of the creative team of the homegrown musical theatre success, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, including composer Dan Gillespie Sells, director Jonathan Butterell and producer Nica Burns.įind out all about this new incarnation of Brokeback Mountain, as well as the story’s origins and previous adaptations, in our definitive guide.īook Brokeback Mountain tickets on London Theatre.Īmerican author and journalist Edna Ann Proulx, usually billed professionally as Annie Proulx or E Annie Proulx, is best known for her 1999 fiction collection Close Range: Wyoming Stories, and for her 1993 novel The Shipping News. Originally a short story by Annie Proulx and later turned into an Oscar-winning movie by Ang Lee, this newest incarnation is billed as “a play with music” - rather than a fully-fledged musical.

May sees a much-anticipated world premiere: the stage version of Brokeback Mountain at London’s hot new venue, Soho Place.

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