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“[In translation] the text shone a bright light on the play’s darker shadows….Shakespeare stays one step ahead, inventing, adapting, the expert conjurer distracting us with a new twist, a single word turning a conventional moment into a heart-stopping emotional insight.” Kenneth Cavander, Playwright
Playwright
Kenneth Cavander
Kenneth Cavander’s plays, adaptations and translations have been widely performed both in the U.S. and abroad. In the U.S. he has been represented on Broadway and at many regional theatres, including the Guthrie Theatre, Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., the Yale Repertory Theatre, the Williamstown Theatre Festival. In the U.K., his work has been presented by the Royal Shakespeare Company and in London’s West End. His television plays and documentaries have been aired on PBS and network television and, in the U.K., on BBC Radio and BBC One, garnering several awards and nominations. In 2023 he will complete two new projects: the first, a double bill of films on the life of C.S. (The Narnia Chronicles) Lewis, on which he collaborated with the British film director Norman Stone, to be shot in and around Oxford in 2023; and a new adaptation of Sophokles Antigone, commissioned by the Westport Playhouse, that goes back to the original Greek text and highlights the raw political and suspense elements of the original.
Dramaturg
Christian Parker
Christian Parker is a dramaturg, director, and Professor of Professional Practice in the MFA Theatre Program at Columbia University School of the Arts, where he heads the concentration in Dramaturgy. He has worked as the Literary Manager at Manhattan Theatre Club, the Associate Artistic Director at Atlantic Theater Company, and as a freelancer at numerous New York and regional theatres and play development centers. New work for the American theatre has centered his practice and teaching for twenty five years. Engaging the practical and ethical concerns of producing it in the new realities of the twenty first century are his current passion.
In Print
The Tempest
Considered by most scholars to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote, The Tempest is a stormy tale of betrayal and forgiveness.
After being banished by his brother Antonio, Prospero harnesses the magic of an otherworldly island full of monsters and spirits to seek revenge. In reworking this play for a twenty-first-century audience, Kenneth Cavander focuses on the humor and the magic in the tale, much of which has largely escaped modern audiences in recent years.
