By Malcolm Harris for The New Republic, 5 January 2016 To call Jeanette Winterson a novelist would be to sell her short. The novel is a limited thing, a technology like the bicycle pump or the gas stove. Stories are much older, a species constant, like cooking and language. Novels are fiction, while stories can be true or false or neither. “Trust […]
By David Ng for the Los Angeles Times, 27 November 2015 When it comes to writing music for the plays of William Shakespeare, few living composers can claim as much experience as Patrick Doyle, the two-time Academy Award nominee who has collaborated with Kenneth Branagh on screen adaptations including “Henry V,” “Much Ado About Nothing” and “Hamlet.” Doyle has written music for more than […]
By Daniel Pollack-Peizner for The New Yorker, 9 November 2015 In October, the publisher Hogarth rolled out the first in its ambitious new line of Shakespeare plays retold by contemporary novelists. The pairings are promising: Margaret Atwood, a master of ecological dystopias, will reimagine “The Tempest,” for instance, while Gillian Flynn, who knows her way around marriage and murder, will take on […]
Where There’s A Will: Shakespeare Remixed In ‘The Gap Of Time’ By NPR Staff for NPR, 4 October 2015 We often feature musicians who make cover albums — their versions of songs made popular by others. Now comes a project where writers — some of the most acclaimed of our time — cover Shakepeare’s [sic] works, retelling the Bard in […]
By Manning Harris for Atlanta INtown, 22 September 2015 The intrepid Shakespeare Tavern is probably the only theatre in town with the chutzpah to tackle Shakespeare’s “Cymbeline,” now running through Sept. 27. It’s a problematical play just about any way you slice it: Celebrated Shakespearean scholar (and lover of the Bard) Harold Bloom says it’s more a dramatic poem than a play; […]
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