Translation & Adaptation
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Rosmersholm
In Henrik Ibsen’s late masterpiece, the residents of a small town are haunted by a mysterious death. As the paint peels off the old plantation house, so the facade of innocence crumbles away from the ones who live inside.
Charles Lindbergh and Brecht’s The Oceanflight
A critical essay outlining the remarkable history of Brecht and Weill’s interactive opera, The Oceanflight, a piece I’m very interested in adapting and staging. Originally written in 1928, about Charles Lindbergh’s historic ocean crossing, Bertolt Brecht would rewrite the piece in response to Lindbergh’s involvement with the Nazi government—effectively removing the pilot from his own story.
Middle Class Anxiety
Four short 19th century comedies that could have been written yesterday. The Stronger by August Strindberg; A Tragedian in Spite of Himself by Anton Chekhov; Half Past Two and The Overwrought Person by Arthur Schnitzler.
Slander!
A short story by Anton Chekhov, translated and included here just for fun.
Creditors
August Strindberg’s taught psychological thriller delivers a bleak and twisted love triangle. A struggling sculptor begins to doubt his wife’s fidelity, but little does he know that his new best friend used to be married to her.