Created first for theatre as Play it Again, Sam, in which Woody Allen himself played the leading role, Allan Fix, while Diane Keaton played the role of Linda Christie, the staging remained on Broadway listings for over two years, as an unprecedented hit among critics and audiences alike.
In its version on London stages, the role of Allan Fix was performed by Dudley Moore with notable success. It was later made into a film entitled Play it Again, Sam, keeping the main cast of actors from the theatre production with hardly any changes.
In this work, we encounter the author’s favourite themes: psychoanalysis, sex, shyness, fear, sentimentalism, laughter, deep irony… And – above all else and especially – we meet this character who now has an international presence thanks to Woody Allen: the anti-hero.
The star of the work is a human being from our modern times. With his problems, his frustrations, his joys and his dreams. Woody Allen puts the other characters into calmly vertiginous, dynamic and spritely situations, to create a whole that is coherent and effective with the lead character, replete with inventiveness and humour like only this author knows how to do it.
