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From Shakespeare to The Lion King, Julie Taymor brings magic and drama to classic stories
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From Shakespeare to The Lion King, Julie Taymor brings magic and drama to classic stories
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Length:
55 minutes
Released:
Jul 14, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
The theatre director and filmmaker talked to Eleanor Wachtel in 2014 about the phenomenal success of her musical, The Lion King; adapting Shakespeare's plays to the screen; and her film linking the lyrics of hit Beatles songs, Across the Universe.
Released:
Jul 14, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (26)
Looking back at A.S. Byatt, the celebrated English novelist and imaginative intellectual: In honour of novelist and critic A.S. Byatt, who died on November 16, Writers & Company revisits her 2009 interview with Eleanor Wachtel, recorded live at the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival in Montreal. Byatt was there to launch her novel, The Children's Book, and to receive the festival's $10,000 Grand Prix. *Please note this interview includes reference to suicide. It originally aired on May 24, 2009. by Writers and Company