Fairmont Resort, November 11 8.5/10 Dylan Thomas was already dead when Under Milk Wood, the only true masterpiece in the history of radio plays, was recorded in 1954, with a 28-year-old Richard Burton voluptuously intoning the poetry as First Voice. Endlessly revised, the work was still being rewritten up to…
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UNSONGS (Propeller/Caroline) 8.5/10 By the 1980s music largely ceased to be the voice of protest and the force for change that it had been in the ’60s. Now Norway’s Pal Moddi Knutson has gathered together 12 songs from across the years and around the world that were banned or censored,…
I have penned a play called Guilt that Washington DC’s wonderful Scena Theatre plans to produce in 2017. It explores the overlays and collisions between sexual and spiritual rapture: how one might fuel the other, and how one might be misconstrued as the other. Unfortunately the Australian embassy there has been…