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Peter O'Brien

👤 Speaker
315 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
Culture Club: Peter O’Brien

Sunday is it's an amazing piece.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
Culture Club: Peter O’Brien

It's about George Sura painting the painting Sunday on the island of the Grand Jatte.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
Culture Club: Peter O’Brien

And it's basically, Sondheim wrote it, it's about artists and how they suffer for their art.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
Culture Club: Peter O’Brien

And the first half of the opera is kind of a fictionalised version of George painting the painting with his mistress Dot, who's also the model.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
Culture Club: Peter O’Brien

And the second part is his great grandson, who's a conceptual artist in the 1980s when the show was written.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
Culture Club: Peter O’Brien

But Sunday's wonderful because it's the very end of the show and they've managed to kind of

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
Culture Club: Peter O’Brien

the set director, the costume director, they've kind of reconstructed the painting.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
Culture Club: Peter O’Brien

And it sounds really silly.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
Culture Club: Peter O’Brien

I gave my students this year a project on it.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
Culture Club: Peter O’Brien

And when I started to talk about it, I started to weep.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
Culture Club: Peter O’Brien

I mean, I get terribly, it's such a wonderful, beautiful thing.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
Culture Club: Peter O’Brien

And Bernadette Peters, yeah.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
Culture Club: Peter O’Brien

OK, that's Sunday.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
Culture Club: Peter O’Brien

It's going to be the hottest show in the UK next year.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
Culture Club: Peter O’Brien

Ariana Grande is going to play Dot.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
Culture Club: Peter O’Brien

And what's his name?

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
Culture Club: Peter O’Brien

The boy who was in Company and who was in Wicked.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
Culture Club: Peter O’Brien

The dark headed boy.