EPISODE · Jul 28, 2023 · 31 MIN
Inua Ellams — THE HALF-GOD OF RAINFALL
from The Present Stage: Conversations with Theater Writers · host Inua Ellams, Dan Rubins
Follow The Present Stage on Instagram at @thepresentstageThe Present Stage: Conversations with Theater Writers is hosted by Dan Rubins, a theater critic for Slant Magazine. You can also find Dan's reviews on Cast Album Reviews and in The New Yorker's Briefly Noted column.The Half-God of Rainfall is running off-Broadway at New York Theatre Workshop through August 20th. Find out more at www.nytw.org.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 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
What this episode covers
How does a one-man poem become a seven-actor play? In this fascinating conversation with playwright and poet Inua Ellams about The Half-God of Rainfall, we'll dive into the expansive possibilities of text in performance, what it means to create myth, and why Ellams claims poetry is the "most pathetic" (yet still godly) of all the arts. Please note that this episode contains discussion of sexual assault, one of the central themes of the play.
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