'Straight Line Crazy' is a rare excursion into American life by the English playwright David Hare.
In January 2022, the actor Ralph Fiennes took a helicopter ride over New York, looking down like a god on the avenues, expressways, and bridges that shape the city’s daily life. He studied the view with care, not as a tourist might, but as preparation to play the man who created much of it all: Robert Moses, once the most powerful urban planner in the world.
Architect Elizabeth Diller of Diller Scofidio + Renfro, the studio responsible for reimagining some of New York’s most high-profile public spaces, certainly does. “The negative legacy of Robert Moses merits—at the very least—a round of debate,” she says. Diller’s studio notably designed The Shed, and helped to re-create the adjacent High Line—part of Moses’s history and now a site of sky-rocketing gentrification.
For Hare, Fiennes “connects me to the classical tradition of heroic acting of my youth. It isn’t so much that I write for him, as that when I’ve written, it sort of seems absolutely inevitable that he’s right.” He pauses, looking back over a career that has included—plays with huge roles for women at their heart—and then laughs. “Having spent my whole life campaigning for the role of women onstage, I am pleased to say that now as the culture is changing, I am as ever out of step.
“It was important, without recourse to grotesque makeup, to suggest the age difference in someone who got a little bit heavier but probably was still very active,” Fiennes goes on. “In all the pictures and old footage, you see someone who’s sort of fortified himself. There’s a great clip of him being interviewed, being challenged on why he thought it was that the communities were being destroyed by his roads. And he brings it back to the individuals, the individual has to yield to the majority.
Other issues in the play are also still loudly resonant today. Fiennes sees Moses’s obsession with the car, and his inability in the 1920s to foresee an overreliance on the road system, as echoing the development of the tech industry. “[In the 1920s] the car was exciting. Then suddenly the roads were congested, and his answer was to build more roads. It’s a bit like having our mobile phones, and then suddenly we are on the receiving end of so much crap.
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