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EPISODE · Feb 3, 2025 · 52 MIN

Andrea Thome — CYMBELINE

from The Present Stage: Conversations with Theater Writers · host Andrea Thome, Dan Rubins

Cymbeline is running off-Broadway at the Lynn F. Angelson Theater through February 15. To learn more, visit www.naatco.org. Follow The Present Stage on Instagram at @thepresentstageThe Present Stage: Conversations with Theater Writers is hosted by Dan Rubins, a theater critic for Theatermania and Slant Magazine. You can also find Dan's reviews on Cast Album Reviews  and in The New Yorker's Briefly Noted column.The Present Stage supports the national nonprofit Hear Your Song. If you'd like to learn more about Hear Your Song and how to support empowering youth with serious illnesses to make their voices heard though songwriting, please visit www.hearyoursong.org

Translate Shakespeare into "modern-day" English. Preserve as much as the original text as you can. Oh, and, make it work in performance, too. That's the daunting challenge for playwrights commissioned as part of the Play On Shakespeare project. Andrea Thome joins the podcast to discuss her translation of Cymbeline, now running in its first professional iteration off-Broadway in a production by the National Asian American Theatre Company. Don't miss this fascinating conversation about what makes Shakespeare Shakespeare, how to adapt Shakespeare's verse for modern actors and modern audiences, and what it's like to collaborate with a 450-year-old icon.

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