Will “the dauntless Brady” meet his match in Eli “yet more Manning than man?” The Bard’s Play, from NPR.
You think you’ve heard about swords, and heroes, and fire-breathing dragons, and friendship, and glory, and treasure, just ’cause you’ve read those Potter books? C’mere, boys, let me tell you a tale…
Posted in Arts & Literature, Reading Around | Also tagged Beowulf, Dick Ringler, Heroes, John D. Niles, John Gardner, Movies, Norman Gilliland, Reading Around, Reviews, Seamus Heaney, Stories, Wisconsin Book Festival |
Stories are always told in specific historical contexts, but the human condition always brings us back to recurring issues, thus:
Teatro La Fragua used “neo-medieval post-modernism” to stage the story of Noah and the Great Flood in a relief shelter after Hurricane Mitch, and Paul Chan is staging Waiting for Godot in the Lower Ninth Ward [...]
