![]() ![]() George, now worried about his own safety, knows exactly where Lennie has gone to hide, and he meets him there. But when a ranch boss’ promiscuous wife is found dead in the barn with a broken neck, it’s obvious that Lennie, albeit accidentally, killed her. In stark contrast, it was followed by the world-premiere adaptation of John Steinbecks Of Mice and Men by choreographer Cathy Marston, set to a score by. His promise to allow Lennie to “tend to the rabbits” on their future land keeps Lennie calm, amidst distractions, as the overgrown child needs constant reassurance. It’s Lennie’s obsessions with things soft and cuddly that have made George cautious about who the gentle giant, with his brute strength, associates with. ![]() Shapiro Of Mice and Men represents an experiment in form, which Steinbeck described as a kind of playable novel, written in novel form but so scened and set that it can be played as it stands. Lennie is a man-child, a little boy in the body of a dangerously powerful man. John Steinbeck’s adaptation of one of America’s most widely read and beloved novels, now on Broadway starring James Franco, Chris O’Dowd, and Leighton Meester, and directed by Anna D. Two drifters, George and his friend Lennie, with delusions of living off the “fat of the land,” have just arrived at a ranch to work for enough money to buy their own place. ![]()
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