Ralph Fiennes' 'Four Quartets' Will Release In Theaters This Spring
American audiences are probably most familiar with actor Ralph Fiennes from his turn as the Dark Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter films or his Oscar-nominated turns in The English Patient and Schindler’s List. But Fiennes has quietly assembled one of the most eclectic and critically acclaimed careers of any modern actor working today, with roles in projects as diverse as The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Constant Gardner, The Duchess, Great Expectations, The End of the Affair, In Bruges, Quiz Show, The Menu and so many more.
His career has also included various memorable stage roles, from his Tony Award-winning performance in Hamlet to his 2022 starring turn in David Hare’s Straight Line Crazy. But in 2021, the actor took on a very different role, crafting a one-person production based on T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets.
Eliot is one of the giants of modern literature, a poet, playwright, and critic whose landmark works include The Waste Land, “The Hollow Men,” and “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” Four Quartets was one of his last poems and the one he himself considered his masterpiece. The work is considered the primary reason he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948.
