Comments on: From Page to Stage, Part Two

By: Blog Tribute #3, The Mookse and the Gripes: The Humbling, by Philip Roth « KevinfromCanada

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:30:41 +0000

[...] Eugene Stickland, actually wrote a play (“Queen Lear”) about it that I described in a post here). Roth has never written a play, but he obviously knows the stage world well — this novel, in [...]

By: Colette Jones

Colette Jones — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:17:55 +0000

I can imagine it being performed in a theatre near me – The Watermill. It is small but well known for quality productions.

By: KevinfromCanada

KevinfromCanada — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 04:05:15 +0000

I just got a message from playwright Eugene Stickland that a production of Queen Lear in Turkey is being negotiated for this fall.

By: KevinfromCanada

KevinfromCanada — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:53:16 +0000

I’m glad you enjoyed it Colette — it did make the short list for Best New Play in Calgary’s drama awards announced last week.

By: Colette Jones

Colette Jones — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:34:47 +0000

Hi Kevin,
I just read Queen Lear and I agree that it is great. It gave me a few giggles so I can imagine that with good actors to a live audience it would be even more endearing.
Thanks.

By: Colette Jones

Colette Jones — Sun, 03 May 2009 21:01:02 +0000

I’ll happily send you my copy – just let me know. I saw Madden at Edinburgh Book Festival last year in an event shared with Lloyd Jones. She seemed a very nice person, and not that comfortable talking about her own book. She opened up when speaking about Jones’s books. I found that endearing, and Jones was quite the gentleman.

By: KevinfromCanada

KevinfromCanada — Sun, 03 May 2009 14:29:22 +0000

Colette: I think I would too — and Molly Fox’s Birthday is turning into one of those books where the story of getting the book may be longer than the volume itself. dovegreyreader was the first to recommend it to me (and she was kind of enough to link these two essays of mine in her review). The Canadian edition is not due out until August. My first Book Depository order of it got messed up with a miscue on my end. My second try there was accepted until two weeks later I got a cancellation with no explanation (looks to me that that edition sold out and the new one had not arrived yet). The latest attempt comes from 3m who, after winning my Guess the Pulitzer winner contest, said she wanted to buy me a book as thanks — it hasn’t arrived yet but my fingers are crossed. I’ll be reading it as soon is it does arrive, expecting it to self destruct at any moment. Of course, my anticipation of it increases with each failure, which is probably unfair to Madden.

By: Colette Jones

Colette Jones — Sun, 03 May 2009 13:21:08 +0000

Kevin, something tells me you would like Molly Fox’s Birthday by Dierdre Madden, shortlisted for the Orange Prize this year.

By: KevinfromCanada

KevinfromCanada — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 02:26:34 +0000

What I was feeling guilty about was using the picture of a teenage model and a cello for the post, Isabel. Plays certainly are literature and this is a very good one. Thanks for your comment on the post.

By: Isabel

Isabel — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 02:17:04 +0000

Very cool and interesting post.

Plays are literature, so they have a place in a book blog.