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ECLECTIC TASTES DISTINCTIVE GROWL, FULL PLATE
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Eclectic Tastes, Distinctive Growl, Full Plate

Willem Dafoe, who opens at the Public Nov. 4 in Richard Foreman's "Idiot Savant."

STRANGE is a relative term when applied to the work of Willem Dafoe, and yet when one looks at his fall schedule, it is also the word that jumps most immediately to mind.

In the art-house cinemas he and Charlotte Gainsbourg can currently be seen inflicting unspeakable violence on each other in the Lars von Trier suspense film “Antichrist.” Next, at the Public Theater, he will don a frilly 18th-century costume and lead a giant anthropomorphic duck around the stage by its genitals in Richard Foreman’s surrealist play “Idiot Savant.” After that he can be heard in Wes Anderson’s animated version of “Fantastic Mr. Fox,” providing the voice of a knife-wielding rat.

Willem Dafoe in a rehearsal for Richard Foreman's "Idiot Savant," which opens at the Public Theater next month.