Episode 291. Our Lighting Designer

“Richard G. Jones has designed the lights for productions on Broadway, in the West End, and in arenas all over the world. Now he squanders his talents on us, designing the lights for our UK production of The Complete World of Sports (abridged). Featuring the various challenges of lighting John Doyle’s production of Sweeney Todd on Broadway, Strictly Come Dancing (Dancing With The Stars) in arenas, and The Railway Children with an actual 88-ton steam engine; the value of being a jack-of-all-trades in the theatre; the difference between working in the US and the UK; wisdom and gratitude from Michael Cerveris and Patti LuPone; charm from Stephen Sondheim; and how variety is both the spice and the meat of surviving in the theatre. (Length 28:36)

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2 Comments

austin · July 6, 2012 at 10:29 am

Hi Dave –

This helps a lot! And yes — several people have filled me in on the correct story. There were some lengthy comments about it on the page for that particularly podcast episode.

http://www.reducedshakespeare.com/2012/02/episode-270-time-travel-tales/

Thanks for posting! Next time you’re back at Berklee say hello to the Fens for me….

Austin

Dave Twiss · July 6, 2012 at 9:35 am

I have only been listening to the podcast for a few weeks, so I assume that someone contacted you with this information already. I was just listening to the Groundhog Day podcast and you mentioned a time traveling story involving a man going back in time to meet Jesus then finds him to be a retarded idiot. You couldn’t remember the name of it. You thought yours was a graphic novel. I read a short novel back when I was commuting by bus from Worcester, MA to Boston to attend classes at Berklee, which followed this story line. It’s title was BEHOLD THE MAN.

Here is the wiki page for the story: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behold_the_Man

Here is the Amazon link:
http://www.amazon.com/Behold-Man-Michael-Moorcock/dp/B0012QFKCY/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1341592382&sr=1-1&keywords=michael+moorcock+behold+the+man

Hope this helps!

Dave

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Michelle’s ‘Green World’

Michelle Ephraim – a Professor of English and (with Caroline Bicks), the cohost of the Everyday Shakespeare podcast and the co-author of Shakespeare, Not Stirred: Cocktails for Your Everyday Dramas – joins us this week to talk about her frank and funny new book, Green World: A Tragicomic Memoir of Love & Shakespeare. Michelle reveals she discovered Shakespeare surprisingly late; how “fun” is a a perfectly fine description of her sometimes fraught memoir; the shared curse of meeting hero Stephens; how Shakespeare became a source of both pain and solace in the wake of a parent’s death; how her relatively cushy job became surprisingly hazardous; and, finally, how Shakespeare – a dead European white man – became a very relatable force for inclusion. (Length 19:31)

Visiting ‘Shakespeare’s House’

Richard Schoch discusses Shakespeare’s House: A Window Onto His Life and Legacy, his wonderful new history of not only the building in Stratford-upon-Avon that William Shakespeare was born in, but how that building survived and became ground zero in the Shakespeare tourism industry. Schoch reveals how he discovered the dual focus of his book; how it took almost 200 years for people to realize the treasure that still stood in their midst; the shenanigans played by people who first depicted Shakespeare’s birthplace; the important distinctions between restoring a house and remaking it; the trick of hitting that sweet spot between writing an academic history and a popular one; and how the most important person in Shakespeare’s birthplace is not Shakespeare but the visitor. (Length 18:52)

All Our Yesterdays

Joel H. Morris discusses his debut novel All Our Yesterdays – no, not the penultimate episode of Star Trek: The Original Series – which tells the compellingly plausible story of the events that lead up to William Shakespeare's Macbeth. Morris reveals his multiple inspirations, both literary and personal; how investigations into the actual historical couple Shakespeare based his play on informed his novel; the ways in which writing is a process of discovery; how he balanced the political and the personal, the natural and supernatural; how he summoned the courage to explore one of literature's most famous characters; and the wonderful inability to let go of characters that won’t let you go. (Length 22:56)

Published by austin on July 2, 2012