Fanny Kemble, the new hope of one of London’s most important theatrical families, was at the height of her acting career when she retired to wed a Georgia planter, “the second largest slave owner in Georgia”, as Catherine Clinton ceaselessly repeats in her lucklaster and superficial biography of Kemble, Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars. I am not sure [...]
July 14, 2008
Every bird is sacred!
The Greek Art Theatre (“Theatron Technis”) production of Aristophanes’ The Birds which I saw at the Koureion Theatre, in Cyprus, is being promoted as a faithful re-re-re-incarnation of the 1959 production directed by Karolos Koun. That production went on to win the first prize at the Theatre of Nations festival in Paris three years later. [...]
