MEMBER BLOG TAG: as i lay dying
| Thursday, December 1, 2011 10:58AM | | | | Writing Lesson From a Mime | Tags: Dallas Theater Center, Theater of Nations, As I Lay Dying, Kennedy assassination, Baylor University, Journey to Jefferson, Marcell Marceau, Etienne Decroux, Waco, Jean-Louis Barrault, Faulkner, Hemingway
| | | | The Dallas Theater Center was selected to present my adaptation of a Faulkner novel at the Theater of Nations competition in Paris. The year was 1964, a year after the Kennedy assassination, and the novel was As I Lay Dying. A troubled Charles “Chip” Bohlen, US ambassador to France, called to say that the French loved President Kennedy and posters highlighting Dallas and “As I Lay Dying” would horrify them. The title of the play had to be changed.
On a transatlantic call I changed the title of the play to “Journey to Jefferson,” and the Dallas Theater Center production of the play received a Special Jury Award.
One night when we were dark, the cast decided to see Marcell Marceau who was appearing at... | | | | | |
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