By Ati Metwaly for Ahram Online, 31 Oct 2015 Between 23 and 25 October, the Cairo Symphony Chamber Orchestra joined by the Per Poc Puppet Theatre from Spain [and] performed <i>A Midsummer Night’s Dream</i> to the music by Felix Mendelssohn Ars longa, vita brevis or “Art is long, life is short”. Though Hippocrates was referring to the wonders of the “medical […]
Tasha Robinson for NPR, 17 October 2015 Pop Sonnets author Erik Didriksen has been writing poetry most of his life. “I grew up with a knack for rhyming,” he says. “When I was little, I used to write my grandparents poems. There’s a poem [the family] dug up recently — I wrote an ode to pickles. Which is ridiculous, but this […]
By Robert Viagas for Playbill, 15 October 2015 Bill Rauch, the artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, took to the pages of American Theatre magazine to explain and defend his plans to have contemporary playwrights “translate” all 39 of William Shakespeare‘s plays into modern English. The massive project aims to make Shakespeare’s works more understandable for modern audiences, with all 39 […]
By James Shapiro for The New York Times, 7 October 2015 THE Oregon Shakespeare Festival has decided that Shakespeare’s language is too difficult for today’s audiences to understand. It recently announced that over the next three years, it will commission 36 playwrights to translate all of Shakespeare’s plays into modern English. Many in the theater community have known that this day was coming, […]
By Daniel Pollack-Peizner for The New Yorker, 6 October 2015 Last week, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival announced that it had commissioned thirty-six playwrights to translate all of Shakespeare’s plays into modern English. The backlash began immediately, with O.S.F. devotees posting their laments on the festival’s Facebook page. “What a revolting development!” “Is there really a need to translate English into Brain […]
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