From the book to the theater. From the book to the screen. From the theater to the screen. These are adaptations to which we have become accustomed over the years. Many say it’s because the scriptwriters are now devoid of imagination; in a society in which the role of culture is bound to suffering and…
Turning a novel into a play is always something difficult and complicated. It is even more so when you have to adapt a novel set during the intrigue of the Tudor court of Henry VIII through the political intelligence of Thomas Cromwell. But Mike Poulton as adaptor and Jeremy Herrin as director have done a…
Sport is like a book of short stories. Some are stories that make us laugh, cry, pray and dream. Fairy tales that leave us with a happy ending, as it is doing in these very last days the story of Michael Schumacher, or the victory against cancer of champions such as the Spanish national goalkeeper Iker…
The project Read Not Dead was founded in 1995 with the intent to bring to light surviving plays produced between 1567 and 1642. A wonderful opportunity to spend the Sunday afternoon in company of great plays and a stunning cast because, not everyone can get a script at 10 am in the morning and be…
A terrific cast brings on TV one of the greater movies of the year: The Normal Heart. Directed by Ryan Murphy (Glee show running) it’s a message of intolerance and fear but, most of all, it’s a heartbroken and moving story about the struggles to fight a battle that no one has any interest in seeing through to the…
What happens when three of the most acclaimed TV series of recent years are combined into a single project? Well, to answer that we can just borrow the words of Mimi Steinbauer: “I believe Take Down is definitely one of the hottest titles at the market”. Take Down is a thriller set on a remote island…
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