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Where the Best Authors & Actors Meet. Each week, WORDTheatre® shares a brilliant short story performed live in LA, NY or London by a great actor, usually with the author in the room to hear their story being brought to life. Like what you hear? Visit WORDTheatre.org/Membership/ or if you are near the UK, visit WORDTheatreUK.org to enjoy live events and recordings by becoming a Patron or Enthusiast Member! WORDTheatre® is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization in the US and a Dual Charitable Trust in the UK. We are on a mission to make a better world one story at a time.
Hello literature lovers! We are WORDTheatre, the short story specialists and this is our Podcast. For the past 24 years, we have been getting great authors into the room to hear great actors perform their beautifully crafted short stories. Each week, we share a story from our vast archive of live , once-in-a lifetime performances, recorded in Los Angeles, New York and London.
I’m your host, Cedering Fox, WORDTheatre’s Founder & Artistic Director.
Have you heard of a little movie coming out called The Odyssey, directed by Christopher Nolan? Well, I was fascinated to learn that this brilliant, Oscar winning director was inspired to jump into his epic cinematic undertaking when he read the first line of Emily Wilson's remarkable translation - "Tell me about a complicated man!" Published in 2017 it is the first translation undertaken by a woman and it is remarkable.
We love to collaborate with other institutions and I was thrilled when WORDTheatre was invited to present Claire Alfree's brilliant three hour adaptation of Wilson't translation in the fall of 2018 at Southbank Centre's London Literature Festival. The gods conspired to help me gather a phenomenal cast of actors – Danny Sapani as Odysseus, Marianne Jean-Baptiste as Penelope plus Joseph Marcell, Luke Newberry, Ray Panthaki, Elliot Cowan, and Bellamy Young, with MyAnna Buring and Nina Sosanya narrating. Conductor Ewan Campbell assembled a phenomenal group of musicians who performed original music composed and arranged by Jonathan Sacks.
Written in the eighth century BC. Homer's epic poem recounts the tumultuous ten year journey home of Odysseus and his men after the Trojan War. Before you see the film, we'd like you to listen to a short and powerful excerpt from the opening of WORDTheatre’s production. Joseph Marcell delivers that fabulous opening line!
Please note that WORDTheatre holds the copyright to these recordings and no portion of anything you hear on WORDTheatre Weekly, our short story podcast, may be reproduced without permission.
And now the opening of The Odyssey!
WORDTHEATRE’S ADAPTATION OF THE ODYSSEY PLAYS
You just heard the opening scene from WORDTheatre’s The Odyssey: Live at the London Literature Festival.
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We’d like to thank Randy & Jane Sinisi & Palisades Post for their ongoing support, the LA Department of Arts & Culture, and you, our listeners!
Next week, we’ll be back with our regularly scheduled programming of the best short stories, read by the best actors. This is Cedering Fox, wishing you a wonderful cyclops-free week ahead and until next week, signing off!